#PC disk support?
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A month or two ago, you were looking for C code to support reading and
writing PC disks. Did you ever find anything?
I don't remember the reference. When I do recal recently was looking for
someone to write some functions for a 68HC11 application to manage a drive
controller. PC compatable format would be ideal, or have a utility on the
PC to read such disks.
I might have mentioned the possibility of such a project a few months back.
Is that what you were referring to?
–John
Yes, you asked about C code to support a PC file system on a foriegn
machine. I recall seeing an ad in C Journal that had something like that,
for a very cheap price, on the order of $100 or so. I think I even called
them, once, and had a hard time getting through to a technical person. The
name Crosby comes to mind for the company name.
There are at least three MS-DOS file systems available for the Amiga, one a
commercial product, one PD, one unreleased. I think the unreleased one was
written mostly in C, by a group of developers who traditionally release
source code to their tools. There are two or three other utilities for the
Amiga that can read and write MD-DOS disks, but they aren't drop-in file
systems. So you might want to keep an eye peeled for Amiga / 68000 file
systems. Was it you, or Al Stevens, who recently in a recent column called
the Amiga an "amazing and wonderful system"? Gee, maybe the Amiga people
here are having *some* effect. 🙂
the think I was looking for is code to add a disk drive to a
microcontroller application. The 68HC11 is a primitive 8-bit computer.
But the whole thing is on one chip, and it is cheap.
–John