----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: XTIDE controller now available
Ah. Ok, thanks all. I didn't really consider the
8/16 bit issue, but
should know better. This is a big problem when trying to find a
replacement drive for Apple II drive systems such as the Applied
Engineering Vulcan. There are only a small handful of IDE drives that
will work with them.
However, one can use a CF memory card in an 8-bit
IDE application, as
I understand that all CF cards support the 8-bit mode of ATA.
That's an interesting fact I'll keep filed away!
Steve
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I would think an 8bit SCSI version would be cool to have as well, still
plenty of smaller SCSI drives around as well as Iomega and Syquest
removables plus tape drives.