The Hard Disk Driver, ibmIDE.device, and ConfigIDE
The IDE Device Driver allows one to use an IBM IDE hard drive
controller and hard drive OR an IBM AT MFM/RLL controller and hard drive
on the Amiga computer, using a GoldenGate I or II board. The ibmide.device
driver is © Copyright 1993, by Dan Zenchelsky.
To use the driver, first copy ibmide.device to your devs: directory.
Then, edit your "devs:mountlist" file (or a new DOSdriver file starting
with AmigaDOS 2.1) and add the following lines to the end of the file.
You will want to change the values next to the entries for Unit, Surfaces,
BlocksPerTrack, LowCyl, and HighCyl to conform with the drive you are
attaching. See the AmigaDOS manual if you are unfamiliar with mountlist
entries.
IDE: Device = devs:ibmide.device
FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
Flags = 0
Unit = 0
Surfaces = 4
BlocksPerTrack = 31
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 660
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 1
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x444F5301
StackSize = 4000
Mount = 1
#
Then from a CLI shell, run "configide devs:ibmide.device" to configure
the driver for your hard drive(s).
YOU MUST DO THIS IN ADDITION TO SETTING UP A MOUNTLIST.
The program will show you the settings for each drive and ask you if
you would like to change them. Say "y" and enter the values appropriate
for your hard drive.
Once you have done all of the above, you should be able to type
"mount ide:" from a CLI shell (or double click on the IDE DOSdriver icon)
and then read and write to device IDE: just like any hard drive.
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