Re: FastATA, help needed !!!

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-2] Krystian Bac=B3awski wrote:
> Can anybody help me with writing driver for FastATA?
> How should I start ?

Simplified scheme of operation:
  1. Copy buddha.c.
  2. Fill in IDE interface offsets for PIO0 mode.
  3. Modify card probing
  4. Modify interrupt handling.

That's it! :-)

I don't know how higher PIO modes work in IDE.

> There's hardware specification in attachment.=20

Did Elbox give you permission to disclose this information?

For the A1200 version, is there a way to autodetect the presence of the c=
ard?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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