On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 05:44:57 -0500, ZN wrote: > Thierry, I have a question - would it be possible to adapt the SMSQ/E hard > disk driver to the Qubide? This way there could be a standard of sorts, > especially since the Qubide driver is no longer maintained, and sources are > not available... The reason you are getting asked is of course being famous > for writing the CD ROM driver ;-)
It is definitely possible to modify slightly the Q60/Q40 sources of the hard disk driver so to make them compatible with Qubide, then to compile and link the corresponding module into the GoldCard version of SMSQ/E... The changes would be very tiny (I/O addresses mainly, and probably the removal of some Q40/Q60 hardware interrupt registers settings). The problem is: how would you boot up SMSQ/E from the hard disk then, given that Qubide and QXL.WIN partitions are not compatible ?... Of course, you could boot it from a floppy or from a RomDisq. As for porting the SMSQ/E drivers so to make them ROMable and part of the Qubide board, it might be possible, although probably not as easy. Another possibility would be to make Qubide and SMSQ/E drivers to co-exist (with different device names, of course, such as 'win' and 'hdd'), but it might be tricky to make them recognize their own partitions on the same hard disk... I could have a look into it, as soon as I get the proper sources for SMSQ/E v3.01 (the ones I got for now fail to compile properly all but the Q40/Q60 version of SMSQ/E)... QDOS/SMS forever ! Thierry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
