30 Jan
2014
30 Jan
'14
9:20 p.m.
On Jan 30, 2014, at 1:41 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Agreed, but it's also a MUCH bigger task (see recent discussions
about the various issues involved, mostly representational).
- Dave
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Al Kossow
<aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
It's a shame that no one has yet built one of these interfaces that can talk
to an MFM controller. That would have a much wider impact than SCSI. Just saw this on Erik's web site, and
hadn't seen it mentioned here
http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD
Currently getting around 900kb/sec R/W
There's some discussion going on right now on the cbm-hackers list
about adapting the firmware for the SCSI2SD to stand in for the MFM
drive and SASI bridge in the CBM D9060 and D9090 drives (SASI isn't
(exactly) SCSI; the CBM "DOS board" doesn't implement parity, ATN, or
have termpwr, and the DOS firmware formats the media to 32-sectors of
256 bytes per track). Solve those issues and D90x0 drives will work
for many years to come.