Date   : Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:16:15 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: GoMMC is 'go'

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:27:31 +0100, Rob <robert@...> wrote:

>[...]
>
>This board sounds pretty interesting, but I've obviously missed most of
any 
>discussion of it's actual capabilities.
>
>Just being a replacement place to store stuff is excellent, however the 
>obvious question to me, which I haven't seen answered anywhere, is:
After 
>being plugged into the GoMMC board, is the MMC card accessible if
plugged 
>into a standard PC based card reader, for e.g. transfer of files from
BBC 
>to PC (Windows or *nix) environments (and vice versa)?  This would be
the 
>killer-app for me if it was - if I could copy some of my old software
over 
>to run under emulation.

It should be possible, but isn't at the moment.

>Additionally, can the patched ADFS cope with a winchester disc and the
MMC 
>card simultaneously, to allow the data to be copied over?

Yes.

=46loppy images can be copied to the MMC from any regular
(unpatched) filing system. A patched filing system isn't
needed there. To subsequently access them, however, you
need the patched filing system.

>I'm definitely going to have to find some pennies if it can do these -
are 
>there still some available?

Some, but not many.


John Kortink

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