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Adrian Lees |
Message #106364, posted by adrianl at 15:41, 7/2/2008 |
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Anyone interested? I've got a card that's a close relative of this which appears to be functional in the IYONIX pc and I've managed to read drive identification, which means it's a small hop to getting a working PIO-based driver as a starting point, before moving onto DMA, large disc support etc. |
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Message #106365, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:15, 7/2/2008, in reply to message #106364 |
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Anyone interested? Interested in expanding the range of hardware supported by RISC OS? Yes. Likely to have the time/inclination to help develop the driver? No. Likely to install a SATA card in my Iyonix at any time in the near future? No. |
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Adrian Lees |
Message #106366, posted by adrianl at 17:10, 7/2/2008, in reply to message #106365 |
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Okay, I meant 'would anyone use such a thing if it existed?' The chipset in question is a Silicon Image Sil3512 which is well documented, along with their other related chips.
I notice that PATA hard drives are becoming harder to find, although I managed to get 400GB PATA and 400GB SATA drives to play with. 1TB drives seemed to be readily available in SATA format only.
BTW, FileCore currently seems to have a 256GB limit on disc size. |
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Message #106367, posted by jmb at 17:35, 7/2/2008, in reply to message #106366 |
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BTW, FileCore currently seems to have a 256GB limit on disc size. Yes and, for added amusement, the ALi Southbridge in the Iyonix only does DMA to the bottom 128GB of that. Thus, a SATA controller driver is likely to be increasingly useful. |
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Message #106368, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:43, 7/2/2008, in reply to message #106366 |
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Okay, I meant 'would anyone use such a thing if it existed?' In the future yes, because (as you say) PATA is becoming extinct. But at the moment I don't have any use for it. |
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Message #106370, posted by epistaxsis at 21:53, 7/2/2008, in reply to message #106364 |
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Anyone interested? Yes please 
...although it will mean going down to 1 monitor...
unless you want to do a driver for this:
http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=OGD1
Pretty please? flutters eyelashes etc etc ;-) |
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Adrian Lees |
Message #106381, posted by adrianl at 12:41, 8/2/2008, in reply to message #106370 |
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I think there are currently bigger issues than the lack of RO code if you want to use that in your IX 
[Edited by adrianl at 12:42, 8/2/2008] |
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Message #106382, posted by epistaxsis at 12:52, 8/2/2008, in reply to message #106381 |
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I know... :-(
Got to live in hope though  |
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Adrian Lees |
Message #106383, posted by adrianl at 12:59, 8/2/2008, in reply to message #106382 |
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I know... :-(
Got to live in hope though Have you seen.... http://wacco.mveas.com/ ?
Browsing through it last night I couldn't help feeling that it has more promise in that it's progressing faster using a 'walk before you can run' approach.
As an aside, in my day job over the past year, I've learned a fair bit about Verilog, writing RTL for FPGA and ASIC synthesis and contributed sizeable bits of hardware to a production chip, so given a suitable PCB and the tools to reprogram the FPGA.... |
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Message #106642, posted by Phlamethrower at 23:48, 5/3/2008, in reply to message #106368 |
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Okay, I meant 'would anyone use such a thing if it existed?' In the future yes, because (as you say) PATA is becoming extinct. But at the moment I don't have any use for it.
Although, I do at least have a spare SATA drive now, so if you need any help testing it then I could probably stretch my wallet far enough to buy a card. It's a 500GB drive, so I'll also be able to test whatever changes get made to allow filecore to support drives >256GB. (Assuming the drive doesn't play dead again)
But I'm still a bit busy to be able to offer any time to help write the driver. |
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