
From: "Dale Wick" <dalew@gateway.truespectra.com>

Subject: Re: Interesting info about IDE...


 Rich Drushel said:
> I'm the one responsible for the ADAM mention...I bought a GIDE
> about 2 years ago ($72), and have never had time to assemble it
> I'm pretty sure that Mark Gordon's (Tony Morehen's?) low-level
>IDE interface could be made to work with the GIDE.  Sigh.  The 
>GIDE is an elegant little board; as I recall, it was slightly 
>in the way of the VDP (so you'd have to pop off the cemented-on 
>VDP heatsink to get clearance).

 Dale Wick replies:
Does that make me responsible for the CD-ROM driver?  I've been
working on it.  I have it to the point where I can control the
eject button on the front of a CD-ROM drive, and lock a CD in 
the drive but nothing else yet.  The next step is to get the 
block transfer of data to work correctly.  I have it working on 
one model of IDE/ATARI CD-ROM drive, but I just bought a newer 
one (24x CD-ROM) and it isn't reliable.  So I went a got a 
recent ATA-3 specification so that I do the ATAPI requests 
correctly.  We'll see how it goes, but I may yet have a CD-ROM 
conversion program that can read ISO-9660 CD-ROMs, and copy files
to a CP/M or to EOS.  The first step is to transfer data though.
My code is being developed in MIC, and I would imagine that
it will be portable to other 8-bit systems with IDE adaptors.

          Dale

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