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- Path: news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!leek
- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 12:44:44 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <96006.124445LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AutoConfig, IDE HDD, RAM Controller
- References: <4cglda$dpg@dino.hungary.net>
-
- In article <4cglda$dpg@dino.hungary.net>, test@omega.hungary.net (suli test)
- says:
- >
- >I'm madly search for docs on how to build an A500 (YES) IDE HDD & RAM board
- >with AutoConfig.
-
- The closest one is the Scram 500. Unfortunately the National
- Semiconductor SCSI chip is no longer available. The drive uses some of
- the faetures of it, so a normal NCR 5380-ish won't work. On the other
- hand most of the schematic part (except the GAL equations) should work
- fine. It would be possible to put together an IDE port basing that
- as the starting point.
-
- >I looking for docs about the AutoConfig mechanism, and on how to write
- >file-systems with drivers...
-
- RKRM hardware, A500/A2000 Technical manual (who sells that now ?) have
- autoconfig documented. There is autoboot.asm under RKRM_Lib/Expansion
- on the RKRM files available on fish disk. It is an outline of the
- bootrom. It would be a framework to build a boot rom once you have
- written a driver.
-
- >Thanx !
- > Hex
-
- K. C. Lee
-