23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
7:39 p.m.
On 23/02/11 19:05, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I don't exactly appreciate the idea behind this.
I use CF-to-PATA
adapers on several machines (my mail server uses a Microdrive in one)
and have no problems booting or anything else--but they're running
Linux or DOS.
I've got a CF card inside my HP logic analyser (which is currently very
ill and needs a PLCC32-packaged 28C16 EEPROM to fix the Ethernet card).
Got sick of the 540MB Quantum Fireball whining -- that thing has had
bearing whine for ages. Swapping it for a CF hasn't brought the noise
level down by much though -- those 120mm Papst metal-rotor fans make a
hell of a lot of noise...
But PATA's a dead duck. I'd like to see an
SDHC-to-SATA adapter.
Theoretically doable -- either implement a complete SATA MAC on an FPGA
(and use an external PHY, though those are pretty rare), or implement
PATA on an FPGA (very easy) and use one of ROHM's SATA-to-PATA bridge chips.
I wanted to do an SDHC-to-PATA interface, or maybe an IDE, SDHC or
CompactFlash-to-SCSI interface. The SCSI ones are pretty appealing, I'm
currently "discussing" the purchase of a HP 16700A logic analyser (the
PA-RISC based thing that runs HP-UX and uses an external VGA display).
Those things boot off of a SCSI hard drive -- which are starting to
become hard to find... Well, at least if you want *working* SCSI drives
anyway...
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/