Re: X-IDE directory (2)

From: Craig Taylor (ctalkobt_at_gmail.com)
Date: 2008-01-10 21:00:22

Just to throw this out there as I believe as it's already been mentioned
(I believe) that the multi-drive coding has been removed. 

I'd love to see a 'CI' command that would change the image associated
with a drive number, eg: Load "$1:",8 would show me the d64 image
previously 'ci'maged. Drive 0 could always be the main drive. This would
make copying / transferring from d64's a bit easier. 

As always, since I'm not coding it - complete understanding of total
ignorance of my suggestion is more than understood. :-) 

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:48 +0100, Ruud@baltissen.org wrote:
> Hallo Jim,
> 
> 
> > but what would CI do?
> 
> Change the image.
> 
> 
> > Should they be simply these 2 letter mnemonics, or go with the idea of 
> > Memory-Write and be M-I, C-I, and R-I?
> 
> A 2 letter mnemonics is less programming and therefore less ROM. But I only 
> use this argument because I'm a lazy programmer :)
> 
> 
> > However, from the idea perspective, I like it.  I'd rather not make it 
> > too tied to the FS, since you could have a regular file on a CF disk in 
> > FAT format be a .D64 file, and you'd want the drive to allow you to use 
> > it as a disk.
> 
> I understand you want to mix FAT and D64. I meant this idea as an extension 
> of X-IDE V0.3 where the 1541 sees the harddisk as one single floppy and 
> nothing more. The idea is to use the CD (or C-I) command in the first place 
> to change the "floppy", nothing more and nothing less. In this way users 
> can at least already make use of the real capacity of a harddisk, although 
> in a bit primitive way. IMHO this is better then to wait for a FS that 
> still can take months.
> 
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