SD2IEC question?

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Boray
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SD2IEC question?

Post by Boray »

Is it okay to remove or insert the SD card while the Vic-20 is running? Until now, I've always turned the Vic-20 off to do that.
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Re: SD2IEC question?

Post by English Invader »

Boray wrote:Is it okay to remove or insert the SD card while the Vic-20 is running? Until now, I've always turned the Vic-20 off to do that.
I do it and it's never been a problem. In principle, it's no different to removing a floppy disk while the computer is still on.
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Post by pallas »

are we sure the sd2iec firmware flushes all the buffers and leaves the filesystem in a consistent state every time the led goes off?
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Post by brain »

pallas wrote:are we sure the sd2iec firmware flushes all the buffers and leaves the filesystem in a consistent state every time the led goes off?
I can confirm that it does. It also rests the internal state when a new card is inserted.

Feel free to eject/insert SD cards with sd2iec-based devices with abandon.

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Post by Boray »

Thanks!
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Re: SD2IEC question?

Post by Mikam73 »

Does it support sub directorys?

Like C16 -> Games, Demos

Vic20 -> Games, Demos
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Re: SD2IEC question?

Post by brain »

Yep!

@cd:directory
@cd:..

etc.
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Re: SD2IEC question?

Post by Boray »

You can browse around in the file structure with http://www.boray.se/commodore/vicmenu.html
(or with CBM file browser).
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Re: SD2IEC question?

Post by Mikam73 »

Thanks. I better check if my Megacart has those :)

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Seems that older Mega-Cart didnt have this utility yet.
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