That would be a great addition to your emulator: have a directory be
presented in the emulator as floppy or hard disk partition!.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frits Hilderink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 4:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: (Silly) question about MSX on PC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bas
> Wijnen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: (Silly) question about MSX on PC
>
>
> Hello,
>
> If I am right, this is not the question. He didn't want to emulate his
> interface, he wanted to use his harddisk (the partition, not
> an image on
> it) as a harddisk which can be used in the emulator.
There are two ways then:
I mentioned that Windows NT could open a harddisk on a certain level
that allows you to bypass the directory and file structure and read/write
the harddisk as IF it where a diskimage. In this case the BERT SCSI rom
would interpret the contents of the harddisk partition / diskimage.
If you don't want an image representing a harddisk than you will probably
want a certain directory on a PC harddisk to be interpreted inside the
emulator as if it is a harddisk. The same could be done for a floppy,
just put the files inside a directory and tell the emulator that that
particular directory is to be seen as a harddisk partition or a floppy.
In this case the emulator would interpret the contents and represent it
inside the emulator as a harddisk or a floppy.
>
> Bye,
> shevek
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Frits Hilderink wrote:
>
> > I could do this for NLMSX. I've already done it for the WD2791
> > diskcontroller.
> > Eventually it all comes down to reading/writing sectors. If
> > you get me a ROM of this BERT SCSI interface and the specs of
> > the SCSI controller that the ROM will try to get control of then
> > it is possible.
> >
> > The only thing missing here is an image of the disk itself.
> Which can
> > easily be created and partioned inside the emulator. Under
> Windows NT
> > the image could very well be a real harddisk, since a
> harddisk can be
> > opened under Windows NT as if it would be a diskimage.
> Zipdisks and CDROMs
> > can also be opened in this way. This is a little more difficult for
> > Windows 98, but it's possible.
> >
> > > Why?
> > > Because I have been using a 40MB SCSI harddisk on my MSX but
> > > since I got a
> > > ZIP I didn't use it very often. So I put it into my pc
> > > (because i needed
> > > some space on my desk, and there was plenty of space inside
> > > the PC cover).
> > > At my great surprise the pc can read the BERT partition table
> > > so I can acces
> > > BOTH partitions with my pc.. but since a 40MB harddrive is
> > > not very useful
> > > on a PC i thought: 'maybe a "fake-MSX" can use it'.
> > >
> > > Grtz, Siebe.
> > >
>
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