Hi Phil.

Great work.

The FAT loader sounds fantastic. It should help me get the Compact Flash
project back on
track.I should get time to play with it this evening. I'll be looking
into making up a batch
of adaptors once I can fully test my interface, the FAT loader should
help me do that.

I can't wait for the disassembley of the Xtal OS. It would be great to
be able to patch it to
work with large volume drives and CF cards. Then eventually aim for a
full IDE interface,
but that's some way off yet.

FAT compatibility would also open up the possibility of using USB ports.
Only for mass
storage devices, unless someone wants to write other drivers. With so
many devices showing
up as mass storage devices, everything from phones to thumb drives, to
digital cameras, and all
using FAT.

Taken to it's extreme it should be possible to connect a digital camera
through a USB port,
pull photos onto an Einstein IDE hard drive and send them over your LAN
with a serial-LAN
adaptor. ( I have some z80 tcp/ip code, but I'm more capable with the
hardware side of things)

Regards,
Geoff