Hi all,
I was wondering: There are many MSX disk cartridges that already have native FAT16 support (which means you can boot FAT16 partitions also), like the LPE-MMC-V6, the Sharksim's SD/MMC interface and even the OCM internal MegaSD interface. But the CompactFlash ATA-IDE still doesn't.
Without this built-in FAT16 support we still have to use a combination of FAT12+FAT16 that is not compatible with todays PCs. If the FAT16 support was built-in, we could just pop the card from the PC card reader and plug it directly on the MSX (and vice-versa), speeding up a lot the file exchange process. Currently the only way to do this is to use a second CF card, which is both expensive and overkill.
Why the CompactFlash ATA-IDE still don't have the native FAT16 support? Is it that hard to implement? Wouldn't it just be a matter of using the BIOS from one of the other interfaces together with the ATA-IDE drivers?

That would basically fix the issue for Sunrise CF interfaces, wouldn't it? If somebody tried that: findings please?