Archiving Software

Christian Corti cc at corti-net.de
Sat Dec 17 05:17:23 CST 2005


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> For the FDC - I talk directly to the hardware, including the DMA chip - 
> but I let the BIOS handle the FDC interrupt (the handler just sets a 
> flag indicating that the current DMA operation if finished).

And when will ImageDisk support additional FDCs (even at different IRQs 
and DMAs)? Without that support, I can't use it for my 8" and 5,25" 48tpi 
DD drive. I have a total of 4 FDDs on my machine (and perhaps more to 
come), and two FDCs (primary and secondary for now).
And why doesn't ImageDisk support 4 FDDs on a single FDC? I have some 
boards that handle four drives with one FDC by providing two 34 pin 
headers that each connect to two drives. There are still too many 
restrictions to ImageDisk.
But I honour your effort in making a universal disk archiving tool. Hope 
it will some day incorporate the above mentioned subjects. On the other 
hand, if the source were available...

Christian


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