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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-03-29 5:51 PM
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Hi There,

Just had a brainwave about that CF USB Host card:

You can get drivers for DOS which work with USB, You can get PocketDOS for CE so put 2 and 2 together and you have a possability for USB and HPC 2000

Yey (I think )

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matrixcore Page Icon Posted 2005-03-29 6:42 PM
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Drivers for the chipset are already supplied for PPC, and the source is available, so i don't see why you need to use DOS drivers inside CE, when you can have native drivers. Besides, i don't think it'll work, for DOS drivers will try to call an INT directly and i won't think that HPC's will like that.

I would try to compile the drivers myself and see if it works, but the seller won't ship to mexico

You see, DOS is not an OS, is should have been called DPIM (Disk Priveleged Interrupt Manager).
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Snappy! Page Icon Posted 2005-03-29 11:06 PM
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matrixcore - 2005-03-29 4:42 PM

Drivers for the chipset are already supplied for PPC, and the source is available, so i don't see why you need to use DOS drivers inside CE, when you can have native drivers. Besides, i don't think it'll work, for DOS drivers will try to call an INT directly and i won't think that HPC's will like that.

I would try to compile the drivers myself and see if it works, but the seller won't ship to mexico

You see, DOS is not an OS, is should have been called DPIM (Disk Priveleged Interrupt Manager).


Well ... its a Disk Operating System ... only designed to operate on the Disk!!

no wonder, it's so crappy on everything else ...
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takwu Page Icon Posted 2005-03-30 3:32 AM
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DOS is designed to run on x86 hardware. HPCs do not have compatible hardware.

PocketDOS works by *emulating* x86 hardware. Only the parts that are emulated would work, and that does not include USB. Please check the "specifications" page from the official website:
http://www.pocketdos.com/
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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-03-30 4:18 AM
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OK so maybe I was wrong Oh well. Today I'm going to look into that CF card and see if it realy works with CE

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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-03-30 7:40 AM
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& even then it'll only emaulate XT - so a 286 and doubt it'd have enough IRQs avaialble to address a USB controller in the first place
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2005-03-30 8:21 AM
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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-04-03 1:58 PM
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Ok definetly a bad idea. How hard is it to compile the driver source?

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sophisticatedleaf Page Icon Posted 2005-04-03 2:55 PM
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Someone want to link the source directly to this thread? I would like to look at it.
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matrixcore Page Icon Posted 2005-04-03 4:24 PM
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ProgramSynthesiser: the URL for the card info is http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html

And the url for the chipset driver (in which linux driver is based) is:
http://www.cypress.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=209&PageID=259&fid=10&rpn=SL811HS&res_filter=Software%20and%20Drivers&next=0

Hope this helps, got get 'em
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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-04-04 8:03 AM
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matrixcore - 2005-04-03 9:24 PM

URL for the card info is http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html


Just downloaded the original drivers off the ratocsystems website, unzipped found the driver for a PPC 2002 (the Compaq one) and it installed without bother on my Jornada 720 Anyone any ideas? This must mean there is a chance it would work right?

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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-04-04 12:56 PM
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Nick, shoot me all the .cab files in it's install folder, I'll have a lookcie.
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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-04-04 1:21 PM
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I just have the self extracting .exe now, it's quite big download it from here:

http://www.nickcharlton.org.uk/download/cfu1_r18.exe

Thats what I found on the website, I installed the PPC2002, Compaq one

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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-04-04 2:34 PM
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Well the host driver name seems to be
usbd.dll
and all seems well, no unusual calls.

However the Human Interface and Storage drivers are making calls to DLLs which do not exist under HPC2000
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Nick Charlton Page Icon Posted 2005-04-04 5:18 PM
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Could these drivers be installed on HPC2000?

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