4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
5:23 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 19:00 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:14 PM
I was confused by the statement too. Are you saying that the same
*model* of controller won't necessarily work (due to different
tolerances in components say) - or just that different controllers that
happen to use a few common chips won't work?
The former would be a little alarming - the latter makes much more sense
and would seem like a given. (Maybe that's where Sellam was getting
confused?)
cheers
Jules
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
With Vintage as a domain name you should be familiar with the fact that
standards develop slowly.
Hard drive interfaces for the PC "standardized" with the AT, before that
people did what ever they wanted. Sometimes one controller would read a
disk from a different type of controller but it was just luck. If you are trying to recover files you are
probably wasting your time,
the
XT controllers used unique formatting and you will never read the data
off
of the drives without using controllers indentical with ones used
originally. It is not good enough to use the same brand or even chipset.
This doesn't make much sense. Can you please explain further?