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Re: [MiNT] MiNT and hard disk driver

To: Nicholas Steele <ndn2002@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT and hard disk driver
From: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:05:08 +0100 (CET)
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Hello!

>     In some of the recent discussions it's been brought up that MiNT doesn't
> have it's own hard disk driver. Aren't the functions in xhdi.c and
> block_IO.c for accessing hard drives?

Yes, they use the XHDI interface of the installed harddiskdriver.

> What exactly is required for a MiNT
> hard disk driver? Is it just a rwabs implementation?

More or less yes (a little bit partition handling stuff too, but that's
not a problem; I already have routines for that).


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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- [MiNT] MiNT and hard disk driver
  - From: Nicholas Steele <ndn2002@shaw.ca>

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