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Offline Z80System

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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #120 on: 2014.March.25. 20:02:24 »
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Now you are free to interchange files, delete, rename, etc, between the card and your computer.
It's cool, but the main problem remains. It can be only FAT16 and EP can use only FAT12. And no vice versa.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #121 on: 2014.March.25. 20:20:48 »
But Zozo said he was actually working in a FAT16 OS for the EP... We have been waiting 30 years for some miracles that are now real on the EP(10Mhz, almost all the memory map populated, SD card reader, IDE HDs, and many more).



We can wait a little...
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #122 on: 2014.March.25. 20:24:49 »
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We can wait a little...

Is not that an option to teach the OS on the wifi card the FAT12 ?
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #123 on: 2014.March.25. 20:36:04 »
On the other side.... I don't know how to do a FAT12 partition on that SD card. I have used "MiniTool partition" for FAT16 but it doesn't have a FAT12 option. May be the WIFISD would accept it...but enough of tiny partitions, the goal now is FAT16(=4G!).

Even the IDE card from Zozo can benefit from even greater partitions.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #124 on: 2014.March.25. 20:37:35 »
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EP can use only FAT12
Currently! :-)
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #125 on: 2014.March.25. 20:40:17 »
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I don't know how to do a FAT12 partition on that SD card.
Most easy way write out VHD files to the card.
Empty VHD files.
VHD with lot of programs.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #126 on: 2014.March.25. 20:42:54 »
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Currently! 
Is not it a slightly big chunk of meat ?
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #127 on: 2014.March.25. 20:43:23 »
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I have used "MiniTool partition" for FAT16 but it doesn't have a FAT12 option.
All Windows partition program stupid :evil:
If I remember right can be done by FreeDOS. Firstly create partitions then with another command change the type to FAT12, and finaly format the partitions.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #128 on: 2014.March.25. 20:50:55 »
OK, I'll test tomorrow if the WIFISD accepts FAT12 partitions, but for me is of no use....
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #129 on: 2014.March.25. 20:53:39 »
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Is not it a slightly big chunk of meat ?
On TVC VT-DOS done by Pal Sebestyen. Now needed to combine the modified routines with the EXDOS. The main difference: on VT-DOS FAT12 routines are completly replaced, and all floppy routines droped and replaced by directly with SD routines.
I want to keep the originaly capatibilities of the EXDOS, everything will be a plus.
On TVC the ROM space are limited, but on Enterprise we have a lot of space.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #130 on: 2014.March.26. 12:11:15 »
Definitely FAT12 doesn't work with the WIFISD Transcend. It waits indefinitely trying to connect, I don't know why. I will not do more research on this, no worth it.


But I like to see if I can make visible for the card the other 4Gig partitions, so even if Windows does not want to access them on a card reader, we could via FTP...


I will try to mount them in the autorun.sh script.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #131 on: 2014.March.27. 23:14:37 »
Layout tidied up, fixed a few errors and first batch of PCB's ordered.

Plus I've got SDCC compiling a ROM extension and working with the emulator. I've even made a start on the SD card setup code. So I just need some hardware to start testing now... :ds_icon_cheesygrin:

Going to be quite slow debugging having to write code and flash a chip to test on real hardware!!
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #132 on: 2014.March.28. 00:12:13 »
Seems like someone(a tech hacker named CNLohr) has achieved communication with the WIFISD by means of the 4-bit protocol. 

He has dropped the schematics of a "motherboard" for the card and all the code to allow everybody repeat the project.

Here is a video of the thing working and the web page that has published the notice.

For now it's "only" I2C protocol, as other hacker(Dimitry) says in a commentary that the real protocol of the card is still unknown, but very much fast and potent.
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #133 on: 2014.March.28. 12:01:17 »
But this new is from October 2013....
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Re: SD card interface
« Reply #134 on: 2014.April.23. 23:57:04 »
I got my prototype PCB's through yesterday. This is the first one built up with just the SRAM and FLASH as a test. Here you can see it running with additional 512KB RAM and 512KB FLASH.

Next is to install the CPLD and start testing the SPI interface.

Edit: Zozo, how are you getting on with the SD card software for the cartridge expansion? Do you have any working code for setting up and reading the SD card with the cartridge hardware? I am using some PIC Micro source code as the base for my SD card code, but if you already have something working I could use, that would save me a lot of time. :)
« Last Edit: 2014.April.24. 00:09:12 by Saint »
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