3 Dec
2008
3 Dec
'08
10:37 a.m.
On 28 Nov 2008 at 11:37, Chris M wrote:
what I had been thinking was shouldn't it be
somewhat *easy* to make
an IDE drive into an MFM. Just strip off what you don't need! How do
you make an elephant...take a piece of stone and remove everything
that don't look like an elephant! And it's done!
Given that modern IDE drives are designed for very different data
rates (and a host of other things), even if one could tap into the
read/write circuitry directly (with high integration, I'm not sure
that this is even possible) there would be no assurance that it would
work.
Cheers,
Chuck