26 Jun
2012
26 Jun
'12
8:03 p.m.
On 06/26/2012 07:40 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Instead of tying in at the MFM signal level, why not
replace the drive
controller chip with something that looks like it at the register level?
Granted it's not a universal solution, but the common WD and NEC
controllers seem like candidates.
I exchanged e-mail with someone who was thinking in that direction a
while ago. Probably time to dig that up.
That would never work on, for example, dave.g4ugm's IBM 3174s. :-(
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA