Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

2009-02-10 Thread Simon Owen
Earlier I wrote to Thomas Harte: I don't currently own a regular SD card, so I'm not able to try it myself. I'll see if I can pick one up in the next couple of days I managed to acquire a 1GB SD at lunchtime, so I've had a quick go. It uses normal byte ordering like Atom Lite, so you just

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Harte
Or, presumably, I could grab the SD card content to my hard disk, switch all pairs of bytes and then use that in the emulator? I shall have to keep my eyes open for a 1 gb SD card since the 2 gb won't be formatted to the correct size from Sim Coupe's point of view even though it works fine

B-DOS hard disk layout?

2009-02-08 Thread Thomas Harte
I'm just trying to put together a quick OS X tool for managing the 2 gb SD card that I'm using with my new and spiffy Trinity interface — I've been informed by Colin that the cards use the standard B-DOS layout, identical to the Atom, but I can't seem to find any documentation on that. Can

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

2009-02-08 Thread Colin Piggot
Thomas Harte wrote: I'm just trying to put together a quick OS X tool for managing the 2gb SD card that I'm using with my new and spiffy Trinity interface - I've been informed by Colin that the cards use the standard B-DOS layout, identical to the Atom, but I can't seem to find any

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

2009-02-08 Thread Thomas Harte
Yep, I have Sam Revival 21 and have clocked the article on how the flat 32 bit address space is mapped to a traditional disk-style sector/ track/head layout. I noticed that 2 gb cards aren't officially supported, but that was the smallest size that I was able to obtain and seems to work