DOSFS and libblock

[Angelo Fraietta]

Does the IDE driver work for the pc386 derivatives in the current snapshot?

Joel Sherrill wrote:

>
>"Eugeny S. Mints" wrote:
>
>>Angelo,
>>
>>On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Angelo Fraietta wrote:
>>
>>>Is this ready yet?
>>>
>>Currently I'm working on the another implementation of ATA
>>driver which is a bit more chip(I mean IDE
>>controllers)/CPU independant than thye implementation
>>provided
>>by Thomas Doerfler. Currently it will be PIO mode
>>implementation but both poll and interrupt driven. Also
>>architecture of the driver will allow easy extention for
>>any IDE controller and for DMA mode. I've already have successful mount of
>>msdos partition on real IDE hard disk and successful read of a file.
>>I hope I will able to provide something stable (more or
>>less) by the end of the next week.
>>
>
>At least the last (broken) snapshot had Thomas' driver in it.  
>
>I think the source for everything libblock, libfs, and IDE driver
>was up to date in there minus unsubmitted code like Eugeny is
>mentioning.
>
>>Regards,
>>                        Eugeny
>>
>>>root wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thomas Doerfler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi to all,
>>>>>
>>>>>a collegue of me has coded a ATA/IDE driver, we
>>>>>are currently busy testing it. We found some
>>>>>problems in the libblock/libdosfs, but the code
>>>>>is getting better every day :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>So I guess in one or two weeks we have a code
>>>>>ready to be published.
>>>>>
>>>>Need I say more than YEAH!!!  Thomas did you look
>>>>at the DOS FS test that is in GNATS for inclusion
>>>>in the test suites?
>>>>
>>>>FYI I have been out of town for 4 days and the modem
>>>>would not connect.  I have 1200 messages in my inbox and
>>>>am just now wading through them.  Forgive me if I miss
>>>>something. :(
>>>>
>>>>--joel
>>>>
>>>>>Bye,
>>>>>       Thomas.
>>>>>
>>>>>>So it still needs to have an ATAPI driver written for it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Angelo,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This is our test suit in attachment.
>>>>>>>But please take into account that currently there is no any
>>>>>>>IDE driver in RTEMS for any BSP. We use gdb simulator and
>>>>>>>RAM disk driver which we've developed (it locates in
>>>>>>>libblock also) for test purposes.
>>>>>>>But it seems somebody called Camilo Alejandro Arboleda as a
>>>>>>>person who is working on floppy driver.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Please, feel free ask any question you have,
>>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>>           Eugeny
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Angelo Fraietta
>>>>>>
>>>>>>PO Box 859
>>>>>>Hamilton NSW 2303
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>
>>--
>>Eugeny S. Mints
>>OKTET Ltd.
>>1 Ulianovskaya st., Petergof, St.Petersburg, 198904 Russia
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>>mailto:Eugeny.Mints at oktet.ru
>>
>

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Angelo Fraietta

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Hamilton NSW 2303

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