> If it turns out to be unacceptably poor in performance and Si's willing to do > more to improve it then all well and good but if it functions correctly, just > slow compared to other machines HD systems then AFAIC Si's quite at liberty > to > say "it works! what more do you want!" As I don't see anybody else taking the > production of a HD system on a sam under the native system at all seriously > esp Bob! > > A working system is a working system after all, if you despise FATs that badly > develope your own filesystem and get Si to incorperate it if it fits the > specs!
Well, it'll be possible to roll your own o/s and sit it in the hd -- no problem with that, I'm designing so that you can even boot from the CP/M partition if you want :) Oh, and the access is slow, but still at least 25% faster than the disk drive. And you don't have to disable interrupts. And it's easier to program too. :) Si Cooke
