3 Dec
2008
3 Dec
'08
4:36 p.m.
the read/write heads themselves couldn't be made to run at lower speeds, for instance?
Something in the mechanism and materials disallows this?
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: Re: IDE <-> MFM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 1:37 PM
On 28 Nov 2008 at 11:37, Chris M wrote:
what I had been thinking was shouldn't it be
somewhat *easy* to make
an IDE drive into an MFM. Just strip off what you
don't need! How do
you make an elephant...take a piece of stone and
remove everything
that don't look like an elephant! And
it's
done!
Given that modern IDE drives are designed for very
different data
rates (and a host of other things), even if one could tap
into the
read/write circuitry directly (with high integration,
I'm not sure
that this is even possible) there would be no assurance
that it would
work.
Cheers,
Chuck