From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jan 7 15:14:56 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at pp.htv.fi From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT's IDE support Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:13:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Vincent =?iso-8859-1?q?Rivi=E8re?= References: <4B3F2DB6.7020902@freesbee.fr> <4B3F4731.8020807@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4B3F4731.8020807@freesbee.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001072213.04760.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o07KEuLB026271 Hi, On Saturday 02 January 2010, Vincent Rivière wrote: > > FreeMiNT is application as all the others from the Falcon's point of > > view so you must have some loader for it, i.e. yes you need HD Driver > > for example. > > I was thinking about running MiNT from the AUTO folder of a floppy, then > it could load the other files from the IDE drive, if it has a built-in > IDE driver. I think MiNT needs some changes to be run from a floppy. Last time I tried it with Hatari, it refused to boot from anything else than HD. > So if I understand well, this is currently not possible. > > I would like to find a solution to use the CompactFlash card (IDE > interface) on the ACP prototype with EmuTOS. As EmuTOS for ColdFire does > not include yet a 68000 emulation layer, I can't use the standard HD > Driver binary. Fortunately this will be possible as soon as FireTOS runs > on the ACP prototype. > > Are there open-source drivers for Falcon IDE somewhere ? > That I could recompile for ColdFire ? ACSI is not an option? EmuTOS supports that and DOS partition tables natively. (Maybe you could add IDE support to EmuTOS?) - Eero