XTIDE controller now available

Quoting Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>: Humm, odd I've only ever seen one in the flesh, it is my perception that they are reasonably uncommon, at least here in the UK. Also I guess that older cards will only support drives up to 520Mb using CHS type geometry ? And also possibly would be limited to drives that will work in 8 bit XTA?? mode. Whereas the XTIDE has a bios that supports LBA drives, up to 137G, mind for an XT I can't see that you'd ever need a drive that big :) Though asuming that the hardware on the Seagate cards was up to doing 16 bit I/O, there's no reason why the XTIDE bios couldn't be ported to that hardware. The other thing is this is a completely open source project, the schematic, the bios, eveything. So whilst I don't have one of the pre-made boards, I was able to bash the schematic into Eagle, layout a board, and build my own, which does indeed work, may be a good way of getting some more capacity on my 5150 and 5160 :) I'll also try it in my Sinclair PC200 (also known as the Amstrad PC-20). Since my controler is logically the same as the above, do you want me to make reports of anything that does/does not work ? Now what we really need is an MCA IDE controler........that might be a little harder, did IBM ever release the documentation for MCA or do they still want $$$$ fo a license. I've only ever seen one other brand of machines that use MCA (made by Research Machines). Cheers. Phill. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.