Re: Sending arbitrary ATA commands? - block level access for SM over USB adapter for reading Newtons cards

• Subject: Re: Sending arbitrary ATA commands? - block level access for SM over USB adapter for reading Newtons cards
• From: Tommy Knowlton <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:40:59 -0700

Hi,

I just noticed this thread and thought my question might have something to do with it. I want to make a program that will do block-level read/write to SmartMedia ATA cards. I want to start with ATA access over a USB adapter, then move to a PCMCIA adapter, then add CompactFlash support, and finally perhaps a linear-flash read mode. The reason for this is to make an application that can read and write information to Newton format stores, now that the Newton can deal with ATA cards (see Paul Guyot's www.kallisys.com/newton/ata). I don't neccessarily want to be able to *mount* a store like a disk on the desktop, but just be able to read data off the flash disk directly into a memory buffer where I can deal with it there inside an application. (A desktop-mounting utility might come next, as it would have to, since data in Newton stores is compressed in a way that I'm not sure anyone outside of Apple really knows.. perhaps Paul does.

Jim Witte
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After Midnight Lizard Products

You may get more mileage by posting to email@hidden, but the short answer is, it's not likely to be supported by Apple.
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My question: is there a framework for sending arbitrary ATA commands

or something for accessing the familiar ATAIdentify structure?

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