Hat jemand Erfahrung mit dem Polnischen KMK Interface ?

FD

Hmmm,
praktische erfahrung mit dem KMK Interface habe ich nicht, da ich es nicht besitze. Aber folgende Infos stehen mir vom Autor zur Verfügung:

Betreff: Re: Evolution Of The Atari 8-Bit
Datum: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:53:30 +0100
Von: KMK <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>
Firma: Wyspa Autokraty
Foren: comp.sys.atari.8bit

> 1) does the KMK interface connect to the XL parallel bus, the XE cart
> port + ECI , the SIO port, the cart port or what ?!?

ECI+CART on XE. An adapter for XL bus is being prepared (AFAIK).

> 2) maximum number of partitions available ?!? (Myide = 8, msc-ide =
> 240)

16 at once (speaking of the "BIOS" level software).

> 3) maximum partition size (standard = 16 Meg.)

8 GB (again, BIOS level software limit).

> 4) does the harddisk then work with files only (under DOS or Gamedos) or
> does it also support disk-images/boot-disks (like MyIDE) ?!?

Difficult question, what is "support for disk images". Certainly the OS
cannot boot from a file (for disk image is a file), it can only boot
from a partition. You can copy the disk image's contents to an empty
partition and boot.

> 5) 16bit or 8bit data transfer ?!? support of other items like CD-ROM,
> DVD-ROM, ZIP drives and such that require 16bit data transfer ?!?

16 bit data transfer. I don't know for ZIP drives, but if the ZIP is
ATA-compliant, it will work.

> 6) does the KMK interface include a special OS ?!?

Nope. It is a self-contained parallel bus device.

> 7) does the KMK interface support flash cards or microdrives ?!? (MyIde
> supports flash cards, msc-ide does not)

If these devices are ATA-compliant, the support is there. If for "flash
cards" you mean so called CFs (compact flash), these have been proved to
work with the interface. Microdrives to my knowledge are CF-like
devices, except that they contain a micro-harddisk instead of flash
memory. Microdrive behaves as CF, and CF card is ATA-compliant. So they
ought to work.

> does the KMK interface work with different DOS systems (like Sparta,
> MyDOS, Top DOs Prof., etc.) ?!?

Yes, the device is not DOS-dependent.

> 9) where can I buy the KMK interface and for what price (in dollars or
> euros) ?!?

E-mail to: jurekQrembertow.net (q = @)

K.

hoffe, dass diese Infos ein klein wenig weiterhelfen. Gruss, Andreas Magenheimer.