15 Dec
2005
15 Dec
'05
8:56 a.m.
All,
On 12/15/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
There are indeed ISA controllers out there.
It might be a good idea to look for a PCI->ISA bridge box and an ISA card.
Western Digital manufactured a 16 bit ISA ESDI controller. It was used
in the Apollo Domain 3K, 4K and 5K nodes as well, but with ROMs for
motorola 68K based systems. If my memory is correct, the ROM for x86
systems had the disk formatting utility at the usual place, C800,
offset 5.
Simon
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Does
anyone make a PCI Bus ESDI disk controller?
Doesn't have to be 64-bit, 66MHz or PCI-X...:-)
I really doubt it. Wasn't ESDI basically dead by the time that PCI came
out? For that matter, how many ISA controllers exist? I kind of think
that MCA would be your best bet.