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@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@ installing the driver, but do not do the Adam patches yet! Since I have not yet implemented any sort of patch-like utility, you will have to do the patches manually. Luckily, all of the needed modifications can be done by commenting out the sections of code mentioned and/or #including the patch files. -3. Recompile the kernel with BootHDIns(). +3. Recompile the kernel with BootHDIns() and reboot (or run BootRAM()). 4. Only when the kernel has been patched and recompiled can you do the Adam -patches, at which point you can run BootHDIns() again if you want to mount your -floppy drive(s) on startup. +patches. at which point you can reboot or run BootRAM(). You can also run +BootHDIns() again if you want to mount your floppy drive(s) on startup (it works; +I checked). Your system will have been patched to unmask IRQ6 and update the IDT to point it to an appropriate stub. @@ -29,6 +30,27 @@ The low-level functions of the driver will also be made available for your use, but using the BlkRead() and BlkWrite() functions is preferred if you wish to do low-level reading and writing. +With the patches installed as shipped, drives W-Z (which normally are assigned +to CD/DVD drives) will be assigned to floppy drives. Mount() does exactly what +it says it does! + +Currently, only the RedSea file system is supported. You can format floppies with +the Fmt() function. A full format will take considerably longer than a quick +format; on my system, using 1.44 Meg disks, it took just over 80 seconds! A +quick format, on the other hand, took about 5 seconds. + +As long at the initialization process works, you can do whatever you want with +your floppy drive(s). If you don't have a disk inserted, or the disk does not +match what you configured TempleOS to expect, it will show up as "NULL." If the +disk is the correct type, but doesn't have a valid RedSea boot sector on it, it +will show up as "UNKNOWN." + +Make sure to run DskChg() whenever you swap disks; it will recheck the file +system and clear the read cache. Shut down any time you want, except during +disk reads or writes (as is per usual, just make sure the drive light is off). +Do not worry if the drive is not on track 0; your BIOS should recalibrate the +drive during the Power-On Self-Test. + --A note about DMA-- If things went to plan, I would have use PIO to do data transfers to and from the disk. However, they didn't, and my dev system would freeze when attempting |