[NTLK] ATA support - problem with ATA device

"Piotrowski Paweł (Newton)" newton at indigi.co.uk
Mon Mar 19 17:18:15 EDT 2018


> On 19 Mar 2018, at 19:34, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
> I haven't used ATA support so far, so I can't answer your particular
> question. But to the best of my knowledge, ATA support has never seen an
> official release that was tested thoroughly. If I remember correctly, Paul
> Guyot simply stopped working on it one day and released the code. Given the
> almost nonexistent documentation there is for card IO and data format, it's
> a miracle that Paul got that far at all.
> 
> It's probably still in the fine print that you should better refrain from
> entrusting important data to such a card.

Hi Frank,

I wish to have knowledge to even understand what Paul put into documentation. For me this is pure magic. And yes, Paul released source code. So, for someone who understand - technically - could be possible to find solutions, and - maybe - develop that app even more.

Cheers,
Pawel


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