Date   : Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:29:48 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: Solid state storage for the beeb

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:22:32 +0100 (BST), Pete Turnbull
<pete@...> wrote:

>On Jun 10, 15:23, John Kortink wrote:
>>
>> GoMMC, as I've nicknamed the project, provides for
>> 'floppies on a flash ROM card'. Currently, a patched
>> DNFS 1.20 ROM provides, via a 8271 emulation layer,
>> 100% DFS-compatible access to 400K 'floppies' (about
>> 600 of them !) stored on a 256 MB Multimedia Card
>> (one of those tiny cards you usually put in a digital
>> camera, the 256MB ones are about 60 Euro/40 UKP ATM).
>
>At £35 or so, I'd be interested.  Will it work with lower-capacity
>cards (fewer "floppies"!)?  I have one or two "spare" 16MB ones.

Probably. If it behaves according to the standard. I've
only tested the one card (a 256 MB Apacer).


John Kortink