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Re: [ECOS] load data from floppy
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos development <ecos-devel at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Jul 2003 06:07:19 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] load data from floppy
- Organization: MLB Associates
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On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:36, Nick Garnett wrote:
> davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton) writes:
>
> > Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com> writes:
> >
> > > > I'm having a go at making a floppy driver, but it doesn't appear
> > > > to be particularly simple:-/
> >
> > > I seem to recall that the PC floppy hardware is really nasty to
> > > program. IDE is a doddle by comparison.
> >
> > You're right. It's a very unpleasant interface.
> >
> > I managed to beat the relevant Minix code into shape to do what I
> > need. Would this be of any interest to you guys? I'm sure it needs
> > an expert hand to really bring it up to snuff, but it does work for
> > reading a floppy. The license is the new BSD-style Minix license.
> >
>
> It would certainly be worth looking at. We also need to make sure that
> way you are using it matches with the (currently very vague) ideas I
> have about how block devices should work. There are also issues of
> packaging, configuration and coding style to worry about.
>
Are any of these ideas written down? I ask, in particular, because
I may wish to implement some block I/O devices (and associated file
systems) soon and I'd like to keep my approach in line with you.
Thanks.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates