Date   : Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:58:24 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Back from Byte-Back!

"Mark Usher" wrote:
> > and the Retroclinic Master running Level 3 FS off a 64MB partition on
> > a compact flash card!
> Am interested to know how this was done? IDE interface connected to a CF
> card? How does the Fileserver initialisation code work with this as it would
> be expecting a SASI interfaced drive...
 
Updated WFSInit program. See this thread here:
http://mdfs.net/Archive/BBCMicro/2007/09/10/000536.htm
 
J.G.Harston wrote:
> At http://mdfs.net/Apps/Networking/FServers I've just uploaded a tweeked
> WFSInit program that reads the disk size if it can't read the disk
> geometry. I've tested it on a 258M IDE drive - god, it takes ages
> to initialise, but it works. It may also work for a GoMMC drive.
 
Looking at the code again it looks like it should work for a GoMMC
drive. I've used the same find-disk-size code to find the size of
an ADFS partition on an GoMMC.
 
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