Top Document: Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.9) How can my Atari utilize my PC's or Mac's storage drives? Next Document: 3.11) How can I use a USB flash drive with my Atari? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Secure Digital (SD) is a flash memory (non-volatile) memory card format used in portable devices, including digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs and GPS units. SD cards are based on the older MultiMediaCard (MMC) format. ==> SIO2SD, by Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki http://sio2sd.gucio.pl/ SIO2SD is a device which makes it possible to load games/applications into 8-bit Atari computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards. Device abilities: - Works with SD/MMC (FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 formats) - Handles ATR (rw), XFD (ro) and COM/XEX (ro) file types - 16x2 LCD display allows to "walk" catalog tree and choose files to load - Handles SIO with turbo (speed 51200kbps - hsindex 10) - All densities with 128B and 256B sectors, including 16MB disks - Handles drives d1 to d4 (special version d1 to d8 available) ==> SDrive, by C.P.U. (Radek Sterba (Raster) & Robert Petruzela (Bob!k)) http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/sdrive/sdrive.htm The SDrive is a device that connects to Atari XL/XE's serial (SIO) port and simulates an Atari floppy disk drive with full read/write access to programs and data stored on a Secure Digital (SD) flash mamory card. Main features: - Supported flash cards: Secure Digital up to 2GB size, FAT16 filesystem - Maximum number of drives: 4 (D1: to D4:) + 1 special boot drive - Supported SIO transfer rates: 3.5 to 128kbps (standard 19 and 69kbps) - Supported disk images: ATR, XFD, size up to 16MB, 128 or 256B sectors - Supported executable files: COM, XEX, BIN.... (any filename extension). - Device controlled by software running on Atari from the SD card, which can be therefore easily updated/replaced - Drives swappable on the fly by buttons - Write protect/enable switch - SDrive ID number selection switch - simultaneous use of up to 4 SDrives - Low cost design - no LCD, a few LEDs, cheap DIL28 Atmega8 MCU, single sided PCB - Firmware and software source code freely available Special features: - Buffered reads for speedup - Delayed writes for speedup and greatly reduced flash write cycles - Built-in bootloader requiring less than 256 bytes including sector buffer, relocatable in the $0500-$05F7 to $BE00-$BEF7 range, with SKCTL initialization before every block. Supports executable files of up to 8MB size. - Directory with filename simulated for active files in drives, data handled through standard 128B sectors. Executable files can be run from most DOSes or Q-MEG. Random data files with arbitrary suffix can be activated and opened by a program through DOS or copied to disk images. (Note: 80KB file size limit applies to standard DOSes, 8MB to Q-MEG and MyDOS) ==> SDrive NUXX, by Steve Vigneau / c0nsumer (based on SDrive by C.P.U.) http://nuxx.net/wiki/SDrive_NUXX Based on SDrive by C.P.U. Changes from the original SDrive: - A readily available enclosure and custom end panels with cutouts and artwork. - An SIO connector footprint. This allows a standard Atari SIO connector to be used, allowing easy connectivity with any of the compatible Atari 8-bit computers. - Incorporates a low-cost AVR programmer allowing a SDrive builder who doesn't have AVR programming hardware readily available an easy method of loading the firmware on the microcontroller. - The built-in Brown-Out Detector has been enabled with a 4.0V threshold. User Contributions:Top Document: Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.9) How can my Atari utilize my PC's or Mac's storage drives? Next Document: 3.11) How can I use a USB flash drive with my Atari? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Michael Current <michael@mcurrent.name>
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