21 Mar
2007
21 Mar
'07
9:02 a.m.
You might want to keep your eye out for a 3rd
party disk controller with the bootstrap built in.
That's a good point. I have more than one Emulex QD21, a Dilog
DQ696,
and a Sigma RDQ11, which are all Q-bus ESDI controllers and they all
have firmware with boot and built-in formatting support. They were
much cheaper on eBay than Q-bus SCSI controllers, although SCSI
drives
are basically free and you'll pay something for an ESDI drive, but
not
as much as for a large working MFM drive.