Siebe Berveling wrote:
> Uses the FAT16 system some specific IDE-interface only features?
not really, but DISKIO routine in diskrom should be capable of using
>16bit sector numbers. New IDE bios 2.0 does feature this in the same way as MEGASCSI
>does. So routines for MEGASCSI and IDE were kept completely equal. (and there will be
>only 1 FAT16 program needed for both interfaces)
however, when uninstalling the driver, the original DOSkernel code has
to be put back in place and for that purpose there IS a difference in
code for both interfaces.
> Or can they easily (by experts) be adapted for other (SCSI) interfaces?
it all depends if their diskROM can be upgraded to use >16bit
sectornumbers...
>
> I'm interested!
> Siebe.
Greetings,
Jon
FAT16... patience is silver... ;)
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