Ok. How do i create a harddrive file of that size?
thanks
Peter Harkess
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: RE: sam emulator
Peter Harkess wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is an update to allow for a harddisk file
> yet in any of the sam emulators?
The latest SimCoupé release has preliminary support for the Atom disk
interface and an IDE hard disk. It lacks the UI to create/manage the
disks, so you won't find any mention of it in the front-end. If you're
keen to try it, you can do the following:
- Edit your SimCoupe.cfg, and change the 'Disk2' entry to have a value
of 2 (for 'Atom' instead of 'Floppy 2').
- Create a file called HARDDISK.DAT in the SimCoupé directory that's as
big as the hard disk you want. 4MB will give you about 10 records (it's
800K per record/disk, with 512 bytes for the boot sector, and a bit more
for the record name list BDOS uses).
Note that the early support only works with BDOS version 1.6 or earlier,
as the later versions added CD-ROM support which queried some ATA
commands that were not supported (and BDOS didn't seem to fail them
gracefully).
The current development version (available in CVS) handles all BDOS
versions, and doesn't require a HARDDISK.DAT file. Instead, it
dynamically creates a virtual hard disk from the floppy disk images
found in a sub-directory under the main SimCoupé directory. So, each
floppy image found becomes a record - makes copying to/from the hard
disk much easier. It still lacks a UI to configure this from the
front-end, but it's in a much better state for that to be done now.
Si
