Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio

Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...))

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• Subject: Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...))
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
• Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:45:44 -0900
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>Well first, I'd wait until the hardware is completed.  You also must
>program the avr to do all of this hard drive format work.  Actually, if
>you want to make it more complex than to just add files, and delete
>them, and then add on to the end of the used space, then you might have
>to go about it another way.  I mean doing all of this code as to fill in
>the unused spaces on the disk, would require a lot of pointers and
>probably a lot more than the avr can handle.  It would probably be
>halfway decent to just build an OS onto the hdd.  OR you could simply go
>about it the normal way and when you get an error "hdd is full", then
>simply run a defrag program on your PC, and it will rearange the hdd
>data to fit nicely and BOOM, 2 gigs free space.  I think that sounds
>like a plan...

You can't make an OS for the AVR since the avr can only run instructions
from its flash.

Grant

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