6 Feb
2014
6 Feb
'14
4:57 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 05:50:55AM -0700, John P. Willis wrote:
Marginally useful for an RQDX3 type of setup, but probably not worth
much
extra cost... I can't imagine too many uses for (for instance) multiple
RD-54's, given the use cases of your typical retrocomputing
enthusiasts,
but I could (of course) be wrong.
My VAXstation II has a distrubition board with a separate control cable
to each drive after the RQDX3 so I was thinking this was a system that
my proposed multiple drive support wouldn't work in since it required a
single control cable. If the board just sends the same signals to each drive
and merges the lines back it might still work.
Most people seem to think not of that much interest. The cost would be
minor since the parts wouldn't need to be populated. So if it doesn't
take much time and low risk I'll put the hardware support on the board.
Software support for it will not be a high priority.