On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Jon De Schrijder wrote:
> No, he's talking about >32MB partitions on IDE-harddisks. I've mailed him
> a couple of times; but as far as I've understand his work will lead to a
> dead end: he is working on lowlevel sector read/write routines for IDE,
Then you didn't understand it or I didn't make me understand. I'm working
on a full driver, and if you want to be able to read files, you'll need to
read sectors, right? I told you I'm just beginning my work.
> but these are already implemented in the IDE-bios of the interface of
> course.
Ok, you work hand-to-hand with Sunrise people and maybe you already have
that info. But that's not my case. I mailed Henrik lots of times asking
for info on the IDE interface, but I got silence as a response. Finally, I
got the source code for Henrik's FDISK and had to start working upon it,
and it was my only source of information on the internals of the
interface.
Maybe you'd like to share with us all the info you have on the interface,
because there are still a lot of unknown procedures on fdisk's source
code...
> He hasn't really thought of the fact what should be done next
> after you can read/write sectors.
You can bet I know what to do now that the sector part is finished and
that I thinked a lot about that before starting writing anyting.
> In my opinion -if you want to work with files- you'll have to modify DOS2
> kernel routines (sectornumbers>#FFFF). But he doesn't want to use DOS2. So
> don't expect real partitions >32MB :-(
You're thinking in MSX-DOS(2) terms. I don't.
> Let's start the 32MB partition discussion again!
Ok, maybe we'll get some info this time...
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