Re: ProDOS 8 Drivers for IDE Drives

[jaqas@my-deja.com]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the note on block storage devices.  I am hunting for the
Beneath ProDos book  (a bit hard to find here in New Zealand) so I can
read up on this but from the few Tech Notes/etc that I have seen this
appears to be the way to go.  It looks like all that would be required
would be to add a ROM to the board appropriately configured so the //e
recognises it as a block device and provides the read/write block
logic.

Regards..... Andrew


In article <395794b8.246634968@news>,
  CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:42:52 GMT, jaqas@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> >Can anyone recommend a source of technical information on writing
> >ProDOS 8 drivers for a //e. Specifically I have built an interface to
> >connect an IDE hard disk to a //e. The interface tests out OK and I
can
> >communicate with the drive fine. Now I need to get it running in the
> >real world.
>
> I'm not sure where it is documented but you might want to make your
> interface appear to the Apple II as a standard block storage device
> and then you probably wouldn't even need to write a driver.
>
> However, I'm just guessing at this as my memory of the technical
> details and such involved with this sort of thing is very fuzzy.
>
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