Fairlight-CMI

Hi Joe,

That's fantastic news. Thanks for investing the time and resources to test this out.

Do you mind sharing the info on how one has to make the cable to connect the HxC with the IIx?

I'm guessing that this would be the right HxC model?: http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=42

Am I right that once I'd put your cmi_sysv20.hfe image on a HxC I can use it, as is, and boot the IIx from it? Or do the sides still need to be swapped?

I want to sort everything out before I decide to buy an HxC and hack into my IIx.

Best,
David
http://dvdborn.blogspot.com

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "tama_rat" <britt@...> wrote:
>
> I received my Rev F HxC and spent some quality time with it the past couple of weekends.
> 
> The short story is that I was able to get it to work with my IIx -- booting, reading, writing, formatting.  I just posted some pics and HxC disk images.
> 
> The slightly longer story is that I did have to experiment a bit to get it working.  It turns out that you need to swap the disk sides in the image.  There is an option to do that in the HxC tool, but I couldn't get it to work.  (I'll send an email to the author and ask about that).
> 
> I posted a profile (.fpf) file which you can use with the HxC tool to set up the disk parameters for the CMI (except for the side swapping).
> 
> I was mainly interested in turning my ImageDisk images into HxC images, so I used the IMDU tool to convert the .IMD images into raw binary images.
> 
> I wrote a quick little hack to flip the sides in those raw images -- I also posted the C code for that.  Hopefully we won't need that for long.
> 
> I also posted a few converted images.  I've only tested this with the Rev F HxC with the latest firmware.  You'll have to make a cable to connect the CMI's 8" drive cable to the HxC.
> 
> Joe