5 Feb
2003
5 Feb
'03
7:21 a.m.
I wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand. What does IOP
firmware have to do with
> drives?
Jay wrote:
Everything, in our specific situation. I mean, since
you said 2000Access
is the only one we have machine readable source code for, then, to tweak
the O/S (rewrite the disk I/O handlers) to support other hard drives
that are easier to find and more reliable, like the really small HP-IB
units, we have to have source, and the only source you mentioned we had
was Access, which requires the IOP firmware.
I see. I figured that since we have printed listings for C' and E,
that we could do hacks like that as patches to the binaries. Of course,
the binaries might not exactly match the listings, since they could be
older or newer versions.