Hey Paul,
Thanks for the update, but seriously I'd rather you take your time with the
next update and focus on it being totally great rather than rush and turn
out something that's a step backwards.
Just rest up... get well.. and we'll all be happy to try b10 when you feel
it's truly a satisfactory build... :)
See you soon I'm sure.
At 11:55 PM 11/15/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm doing a collective message because I got a lot of mails about ATA
>support 1.0b9 which expired 10 days ago.
>
>The project (letting you to use ATA cards (such as CF cards) on any
>NewtonOS 2.x device) isn't abandonned, on the contrary, I'm trying to
>release a satisfying version as soon as possible (and if ever I
>abandon it, I'll open source it). However, I've been very busy
>recently so I haven't been able to make the current version stable
>enough to release it and I was so exhausted that I caught something
>that look like bronchitis.
>
>Anyway, I've found some time to work on it tonight, although with a
>couple of bug fixes, it's not usable yet. The thing is that I've done
>major changes. And I probably won't be able to work on it until
>Saturday or Sunday morning (I'm doing what I can, but I guess that
>you'll admit that there might be things that come first in my
>priorities such as studies, sport or social life, and additionally,
>I'm so tired that I can scare anyone if I take out my glasses).
>Technically, I'm not working on anything else (I mean among
>development projects) unless I don't have enough time to do a slice
>of ATA Support debugging. I'm mostly answering to mails during
>compilations of ATA Support (right now for example), hence all the
>messages I left unanswered. In a nutshell, I'm doing all I can to
>release 1.0b10 as soon as possible.
>
>FYI, this new version will not include the fix I found for cards
>which cannot be partitioned. The problem was that these cards work in
>some bus modes for reading but not for writing. I'm not totally
>satisfied with the solution I've partially coded, and to prevent you
>from having to reformat your cards, I decided to schedule this change
>and not include it into 1.0b10. It will come quickly, though. Once
>this change has been fixed, now that I have two ATA cards (including
>one which has this problem hence the fact that I've been able to fix
>it), I'll use one ATA card for storage and another for development.
>This way, I'll see how useful the software is and if it can be
>honestly released as a final version.
>
>So technically, 1.0b10 will be released as soon as the big changes in
>the store engine I've brought have been debugged. I have no idea of
>how long this will take. Debugging of the store engine took a very
>long time, but I haven't done algorithm intensive parts this time. If
>I made these changes, it's to optimize the transfer rate (once it
>will be debugged, I'll benchmark the improvements).
>
>1.0b10 already includes several other changes. For example, the beta
>expired alert is now only a warning (i.e. the software still works)
>because, although I don't have the intention to catch a bronchitis
>again, we never know.
>
>For users who have data on ATA cards: ATA Support expiration date
>testing is dumb. Just go back before inserting the card, insert the
>card and reset the date to the proper value.
>
>As usual, sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>Paul
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