Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-21 Thread Laurens Holst
> >Own interrupt, ok. Own VDP-routines, damn you if you don't have them. Own > >diskroutines... NO!!!. > > Generally, I agree. > But it depends on what you're making. NOP's TraxPlayer could have never > been made using the DiskROM. FastCopy wouldn't be worth it's name if it had > used the DiskROM.

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-21 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 10:08 PM 5/20/99 +0200, you wrote: >Own interrupt, ok. Own VDP-routines, damn you if you don't have them. Own >diskroutines... NO!!!. Generally, I agree. But it depends on what you're making. NOP's TraxPlayer could have never been made using the DiskROM. FastCopy wouldn't be worth it's name i

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-20 Thread MkII
>> > I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for >> >reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). >> >> Yeah, but THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE IT 8;) >> >> NB: Despite I'm an absolute hardware freak, please use direct acess only >> when there's no other/better way or when you'r

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-20 Thread Laurens Holst
> > I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for > >reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). > > Yeah, but THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE IT 8;) > > NB: Despite I'm an absolute hardware freak, please use direct acess only > when there's no other/better way or when you're doing

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-20 Thread Nestor Soriano
> Anybody knows how can I read/write sectors of HD/ZIP with >MegaSCSI and Sunrise IDE? For MegaSCSI, I have part of the original information translated. It is about disk access, partition managing, and SCSI commands executing. I'll send to you... just let me find it... --

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-20 Thread MkII
> I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for >reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). Yeah, but THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE IT 8;) NB: Despite I'm an absolute hardware freak, please use direct acess only when there's no other/better way or when you're doing R+D/s

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-19 Thread Jon De Schrijder
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > At 05:27 PM 5/19/99 -0300, you wrote: > > > I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for > >reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). > > You can access harddisk sectors inside a partition using #4010, just like

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-19 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 05:27 PM 5/19/99 -0300, you wrote: > I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for >reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). You can access harddisk sectors inside a partition using #4010, just like floppies. If you want to access sectors regardless of parti

Re: Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-19 Thread Roberto Pinna
> Anybody knows how can I read/write sectors of HD/ZIP with > MegaSCSI and Sunrise IDE? > No, I'm not using DOS2 or BASIC. I'm not using BDOS. > I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for > reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). Any entry in

Acessing MegaSCSI/IDE disks directly

1999-05-19 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Hi, folks. Anybody knows how can I read/write sectors of HD/ZIP with MegaSCSI and Sunrise IDE? No, I'm not using DOS2 or BASIC. I'm not using BDOS. I'm talking about direct access. Like using 4010h of DiskROM for reading/writing disk sectors (yeah, it's insane). A