27 Nov
2008
27 Nov
'08
3:15 p.m.
Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Well yeah. You could probably emulate the MFM controller *entirely*
with a modern microcontroller, and stick an SD card in. There can't be
*that* much involved in pretending to be a hard disk controller chip...
Gordon
Jules Richardson wrote:
While it wouldn't be universal... at least for certain platforms,
wouldn't it be simpler to replace the MFM controller chip(s)
with a circuit that simply accessed an IDE or SCSI disk instead ?
I believe there are only a couple of commercial
solutions out there
(serious $$$), and it's a problem that the hobbyist movement hasn't
cracked (except on paper) yet.
The problem is, that you need serious computing power to do it the other
way round (And I'm looking for an "attaching IDE or SCSI disks to a ST506
controller" solution as well)