6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
1:54 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, jim s wrote:
Something similar to the scsi interface would be a
better abstraction
for the software inteface, I would think, since there are scsi stacks
that can target devices available on most platforms.
For hard drives, probaby.
For looking at alien FLOPPIES, I don't want ABSTRACTION past cylinder,
head, and sector!
IDE could be supported for drives with 512 byte
sectors as well, since
its format is so close to scsi.
I wouldn't know. IDE is based on ST506/412, with its INT13h access.
But,
whatever works for you!
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