Re: XHDI

["Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>]

draco@mi.com.pl%INTERNET wrote:
> 
> > > I've taken a look at the XHDI specification. As far as I understand
> > > German, it seems, that there's no way to access the disk directly as a
> >
> > Hmmm. There *is* an English translation in the archive...
> 
> I've got only a German text (for XHDI 1.3, I understand that it was a
> preliminary document). Where can I get the complete archive from?

The latest official XHDI version is 1.25 and is available from
http://www.muenster.de/~reschke/soft_e.html

> 
> > > device, if it doesn't contain a partition table supported by the hard disk
> > > driver. As I have already noticed some time ago, XHDI drivers block
> >
> > That's available through one of the inquiry function.
> 
> Good.
> 
> > > physical Rwabs() mode so that any attempt to use this BIOS mode is
> > > ignored (that's why the MiNT VM intially refused to work under any driver
> > > but AHDI).
> >
> > Well. If a driver refuses to accept that mode, it is buggy. Which driver
> > did you try?
> 
> I am personally using AHDI 6.06 (where the physical Rwabs() mode works).
> That was HDDRIVER 6.something, I have no clue if it still doesn't work on
> newer versions.

On the other hand, your code might have a problem as well. Just because
it happens to work on AHDI guarantees that it is ok. Maybe you could
post
it here?

Regards, jr