16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
10:31 a.m.
David Griffith wrote:
Is anyone here qualified to design PCI cards? This
morning I got the
bright idea that since PCI floppy interfaces don't seem to exist, one of
us ought to make one. I'm aware of the Catweasel, but it doesn't appear
to behave as a bog-standard floppy interface. This wouldn't be a
replacement for the Catweasel, more of a compliment, especially for
machines that lack a floppy interface entirely or can't handle
double-density 5.25" media.
I'm not sure, you like to go PCI.
(PCI is dying already, PCIe kills the budget ;-) )
Probably to expensive anyway.
We talked on this list few days ago, that the easiest is to put a
ucontroller and a floppy controller on a board, communicate via v24/usb.
Why can't you use something like that ?