8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
12:03 p.m.
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 08:27, Pete Turnbull wrote:
So Tony's idea could handle everything including
an LLF, for any format
and any encoding scheme you like.
I agree also, Tony's most recent idea is probably the most robust over
all. And, satisfying both of our opinions, could be done in hardware, or
in software with a little hardware glue :-)
> c) Something that works "with most ST506
drives" is, IMHO, not good
> enough. If a drive works with the ST506 controller with which it was
> formatted, it should work with the emulator.
But simulator an ST506 shoudl be straightforward enough today, since
it's all in the past, and configurable on the simulator side.
You'll have a job to get a parallel port or any
other standard
interface to work fast enough to talk to the ST506 side. On the
storage side, you could use anything you like -- make the software in
the emulation system modular, and storage is just storage -- whether
it's SCSI, ATA/IDE, network filestore, flash, whatever.
Parallel is dead. USB is the flavor of the month, and today easily used.
There are USB adapters that appear to be 16550/8250 serial ports from
the software side, for instance, but operate at USB speeds. I'm sure
there are other trivially adapted versions of this idea that will do USB
2.0.