Marko Mäkelä wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Ruud Baltissen wrote: > > > I just finished the HW of the interface to connect a IDE-harddisk with a > > C64. I recently got the Eagle schematics of the SCSI-64 thing I designed. I'm going to put that on the Web when I have time to have a closer look at it (next weekend I guess). > I suggest that you use André Fachat's OS/A65 as a base for the system. > Didn't he already have a filesystem implementation? Emulating 1541-like > or 1581-like disks is not an option, since the maximum would be 255 tracks > and 256 sectors, which is less than 16 megabytes. As someone recently > pointed out in comp.sys.cbm, it's not nice to divide a 4-gigabyte hard > disk to at least 256 partitions. I do already have a filesystem implementation. But it is a simple FAT12/FAT16 PC-like filesystem. At the moment I am working on it to expand the partition size over 32M (The old DOS problem - well it knows how to use multiple sectors per cluster already, but it can now only handle 65536 sectors. I am working on making the sector number 32 bit - but with a 16 bit cluster number that is starting to really waste space.) > In my opinion, interfacing a hard disk directly to the C64 doesn't make > sense, except if you are religious about it and want to do without a PC. > Speaking of which, last year you and Frank were playing with the thought > of connecting the C64 to a PC with DMA, so that the PC can access RAM and > I/O in the C64 address space without requiring any software to be > downloaded to the C64 first. I'd like to see something like that in > action. I'm using my C64 with an IEEE488 interface and an IEEE488 interface to the PC printerport. Works really well. Andre -- Email address may be invalid. Use "fachat AT physik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de" ------Fight SPAM - join CAUCE http://www.cauce.org------Thanks, spammers... Andre Fachat, Institute of physics, Technische Universität Chemnitz, FRG http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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