2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
11:53 a.m.
Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> wrote:
It just
seems to me that if you could make the 8-bit IDE interface look like the
WD1002-HDO interface - same commands and responses - to the BIOS that
everything should fall into place and the o/s wouldn't know or care
whether it was IDE or ST506. Obviously, I am missing something!
IDE interface is just data buffers, no smarts. That is all
on the drive. For ST506 the smarts are in the interface and
none on the drive. Since the registers are different for
both, unless you put a PIC or something between the two,
you won't be ab;e to treat them the same.
Dwight