Need help building a driver for "True-IDE" Microdrives

[ravic]

Great information that is what we need. I can help someone setup the driver for use with this driver. Dont have my drive yet.

[lynx_deb]

i've installed WM5.0 emulator..but with the standard file explorer i cannot view dlls files..
i cannot install any application because i cant sync with hosts :(
if anyone help me to sync i can get the atadisk.dll files

[lynx_deb]

i can ask my brother to give me her 4GB pocket-drive (it's a Magicstor ATA-IDE drive..)
so we can try with this..

here you can found the specification

http://www.gs-magic.com/english/prod...t_01_40ATA.htm

[ravic]

See this on how to copy file to and from the emulator.
http://www.ianywhere.com/developer/t...al_studio.html

[ravic]

anothey way to copy files from the emulator is to use "cefilevw.exe" from the folder "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows CE Tools\Platman\bin"

[AdamaDBrown]

i can ask my brother to give me her 4GB pocket-drive

Your brother is a her? :)

[lynx_deb]

sorry for my bad english ^_^
i'm italian..

[lynx_deb]

i've tried the drive..
nothing to do with atapi or atadisk (i've not found atapi.dll on my Windows directory!)

[ravic]

I am assuming it did not work.
Is "atapi.dll" not in the emulator \windows folder.

I do not have Visual Studio 2005 setup yet. So i cannot install the WM5 SDK yet. Which emulator are you running ?

Also, i would like to see what it shows for the "Registry" in the PHM Device Manager for that disk drive.

[biohzrd]

While yer at it, maybe you could make some touchscreen drivers for external LCDs with touchscreens coming in via serial?

[Guid]

For anyone who is interested, I've attached the debug and release compile of atapi.dll (ARM4I) from WM5.

[ravic]

Thanks for the file. I found the reg entries needed for using the atapi.dll block driver to use IDE drive.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ockdrivers.asp

The part we are interested in is here


ATAPI Block Device Driver Registry Keys
The ATAPI.dll file is a block driver that replaces the ATAdisk.dll driver and allows for support of both ATA as well as ATAPI functionality. This is from increased support for IDE and PCMCIA. The increase in IDE and PCMCIA support allows for greater compatibility with low-level device functionality such as DVD encryption and CD-ROM audio playback. For the ATAPI driver to function correctly, you must make an addition to the Platform.reg file.

The following registry key example shows the registry key to add to the Platform.ref file if the ATAPI device is located on the primary controller:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Atapi00]
"Dll"="ATAPI.DLL"
"Prefix"="XXX"
"Ioctl"=dword:4
"DeviceId"=dword:2
"IOBaseAddress"=dword:1F0
"Interrupt"=dword:0E
"FSD"="fatfs.dll"

The following registry key example shows the registry key to add to the Platform.reg file if the ATAPI device is located on the secondary controller:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Atapi00]
"Dll"="ATAPI.DLL"
"Prefix"="XXX"
"Ioctl"=dword:4
"DeviceId"=dword:2"
"IOBaseAddress"=dword:170
"Interrupt"=dword:0F
"FSD"="fatfs.dll"


Still waiting for my microdrive to arrive. If someone wants to try it let me know.

1. You need to copy one of the atapi.dll to the \windows folder on Axim.
2. Figure out the registry path for Microdrive using PHM Device Manager.
3. Create that registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers area
4. Add the above listed registry entries in the new key

I will help install if someone wants to try it.

[Guid]

I've tried it yesterday, and I think the problem is that WM5's atapi.dll has different dependencies than WM4's, because it wouldn't even load. I'll try to compile it with Platform Builder 4.2 tomorrow. It should work, because I know that 4.2 inclues driver for "PC Card ATA disks".

[ravic]

Thanks Guid. It seems like atapi.dll is originally part of WCE 4.0 also.
But seems like our PPCs do not include it.

There is also another German company who wrote a enahanced version but download link is broken
http://www.pfaadtsoft.de/atapi.htm

Edit:
Actually the links here work fine. They do have a 4.2 version here. Can you try these
http://www.pfaadtsoft.de/downloads.htm

Just noticed that it might not be ARM though.

[ravic]

Guid any luck with that atapi.dll compiled in 4.2.
Seems like this driver was part of the CE.NET from 4.0.
Is Platform Builder no longer part of MSDN ?. I have not searched my disks yet. But i thought it was available for download.