Date   : Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:43:23 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: BBC Micro CD-ROM?

(I've been away for a week, so just catching up.)
 
me@... wrote:
> Has anyone ever successfully hooked up a CD-ROM drive to a BBC Micro,
> or Master?
 
I did experiment with a CD-ROM drive with the IDE interface and
successfully got some test data off. However, as Sprow has
mentioned, getting a useful filing system is hampered by the 2K
sector sizes.
 
Last time I had a play with my CD-ROM drive it wouldn't power up,
(like my LCD display) so I never got around to doing anything
further with it (like my LCD display, grrr).
 
> Presumably you'd need a new FS ROM. Is 16K enough to write a CD-ROM
> driver?
 
Read-only, easy. ADFS is 16K and is hampered by being awfully
written and dependant on being a read/write filing system. VFS is a
read-only FS and gits in 16K.
 
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