- Support is limited to 512 byte sectors. So, devices such as ATAPI Zip Drives will work. CD-ROM devices will not because they use a larger sector size.
- The use of hardware reset has been improved such that it is generally only used at initial boot up.
- Minor improvements to CF card detection and initialization.
- Implement a simple wait mechanism to accommodate the startup time of the RC2014 SD Pico module.
- Front panel I/O port for SC series of systems has been moved to 0x00 which is consistent with all other systems and avoids some I/O conflicts.
Prior improvement to IDE device detection broke detection of spinning hard disks. IDE registers cannot be used prior to device init completion (spin up). Not a problem for CF, but special steps required to ensure devices are fully initialized before register testing.
In the IDE and PPIDE drivers, a CF Card is differentiated from a Hard Disk using the first word of the result of the IDENTIFY DEVICE command. The value 0x045A was recently added because it was seen from a CF<->SD Card adapter. However, the value has now been seen from a spinning hard disk. Since the value is ambiguous and not defined in the CF Card specs, I am removing it from the list of CF Card signatures.
Credit to Mark Elkin for identifying this and helping me track it down.
As suggested by Laszlo Szolnoki, I have added an additional CF Card signature to the IDE and PPIDE drivers. He also pointed out a deficiency in the disk size printing which has been addressed.
- The DSKY(ng) can display disk I/O activity as the system runs. This capability was implemented very erratically. This update overhauls the mechanism, makes it consistent, and implements it across all disk drivers.
- DSKYng now has same features as original DSKY including debug monitor
- Added support for MBS LEDs
- Elevated MBS to a platform instead of just a sub-config of SBC
Drive letters are now only pre-assigned to hard disk type devices that have media inserted. Media can still be inserted on-the-fly and drive letters assigned using ASSIGN.
Supports double-buffered disk i/o to read/write to/from any memory bank specified.
NOTE: Disk I/O will be temporarily slower than normal because all I/O is being forced thru double-buffering for testing.
