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Re: Virtual serial drive

On 9/14/2012 1:35 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:

On 9/13/2012 6:19 PM, Sean Fahey wrote:

On Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:34:20 PM UTC-5, Michael J. Mahon wrote:


Be careful--the next logical step is having your IIc just be a terminal for
an emulator running on the PC. And the serial link is too slow for
graphics!

I do like the idea of getting the time/date with each vdisk access...


Well... let's toy with this idea. Why not a small form factor machine,
like a Raspberry Pi or similar mini 'PC' that could provide HD
partitions (and/or disk serving), clock functions (at least date and
time stamping) and serial to ethernet connectivity at the same time?
That's the kind of love the //c (and IIc+) could benefit from.

Until the SPVHD is shipping again (it's supposed to be getting a clock
driver too), a serial solution may be the only viable option for a long time.


Is there a protocol for transporting the date/time somewhere I can look
at?  Is there maybe a status request I can implement or something?


I'd suggest putting it into every vdisk protocol packet from the host in
4-byte ProDOS format. Then the client could just copy it to the ProDOS
global page.
That's straightforward. Does it have to be every disk access - or could it happen at initialization time and be done?