10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
10:13 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Rob Jarratt wrote:
There was a thread recently on the comp.sys.dec
newsgroup which ended up
with the suggestion from David Riley that he would be prepared to build an
FPGA-based board with a QBUS interface on one side and an SD interface on
the other which anyone could then program to emulate any disk/controller
they like. I have been in touch with him to see how much interest he has
had, because he needs a minimum number of about 10 to make it viable, but so
far there has only been me and one other person showing an interest. David
reckons they would come to a little over $200 each (possibly less if there
is more interest). David is not yet on cctalk so he agreed to let me
cross-post this to cctalk on his behalf, but I have cc'd him so you can
reply direct.
Regards
Rob
I think it would be useful to include the RD51 and RD52 in the list of
supported drives. I believe it is MicroRSTS/E which expects something like
an RD51 or RD52 for a system disk.
Additionally would such a board support hardware partitioning? Something
like the old Webster WQESD/04 EDSI boards where you can partition a drive
into multiple drives that appear to be seperate physical drives to the OS?
This is especially useful when running multiple OS's on the same hardware.
This is something I would definitely be interested in, especially if the
price is right.
Another thought is, would it be possible to have it include a system clock
on the same board?
Zane