RE: [N8VEM: 2425] Disk I/O IDE up and running

["Andrew Lynch" <lyn...@yahoo.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: n8...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Rich Camarda
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:47 AM
> To: N8VEM
> Subject: [N8VEM: 2425] Disk I/O IDE up and running
> 
> 
> Well, I finished the PCB assembly today and it came up the first time!
> Great! I tried a couple of IDE drives I had and it selects the drives
> OK, and I can even log onto the C: drive. Did an ERA *.* and then a
> DIR , "NO FILE" message, Great! However I can't copy (PIP) files over
> and it seems like there must be a need to format the drive. Is there a
> program available that was used in the proto stage to format the
> drive?
> 
> Rich
> [AJL>] 
Hi Rich!  Thanks!  I appreciate your help on the Disk IO board project!
This is very good news!

Yes, there is a FORMAT routine on the wiki here called fmtpart2.asm

http://n8vem-sbc.pbwiki.com/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Disk%20IO

It is possible that is the version I was working on to partition the second
partition but it would be relatively easy to modify the code to format the
first partition.  Just make sure the starting and ending LBA addresses in
the format line up with those in the CBIOS.  If I recall correctly, the LBA
addresses correspond to the first partition of an IDE hard drive with a
single 8MB partition.

I check on my other machine to see if there is format utility for the first
partition.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Andrew Lynch