Documentation I/O

Discussions on more advanced topics such as monolithic vs micro-kernels, transactional memory models, and paging vs segmentation should go here. Use this forum to expand and improve the wiki!
Post Reply
User avatar
LegendDairy
Member
Member
Posts: 52
Joined: Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:42 am
Location: Antwerp (Belgium)

Documentation I/O

Post by LegendDairy »

Hi,
I am looking for some good documentation on I/O and storage, hdd, floppy... Basically what I want to learn is to implant .txt support for my OS. Right now I got a simple small OS that has a little command line.

Am also wondering would it be hard to look for files on the floppy that has my kernel.bin ? Or should i look for something else.

Happy NY everyone!
quok
Member
Member
Posts: 490
Joined: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:43 pm
Location: Kansas City, KS, USA

Re: Documentation I/O

Post by quok »

You'll need to read up on the FDC for floppies, ATA for HDDs and ATAPI for CDROMs. Then you'll really want some kind of VFS, and you'll need filesystem support to be able to read the files off the media.

Personally I'd not support floppies and would only focus on HDDs and DVD/CD drives.

All of this is covered on the wiki.
Post Reply