13 Jan
2004
13 Jan
'04
11:22 p.m.
To that end, given that there were two known homebrew
IDE/ATA
adapters (one from Ukraine; other shown at:
http://www.chd.dyndns.org/qbus_ide/ ), I want to know everybody's
opinion of these?
In fact, the dyndns.org ATA adapter has not shown any
development
progress since April 2002, so it may be a non-starter.
I think that's the one I was working on, back about then. I got a
driver written, and it sort-of worked, but it was doing really bizarre
things I couldn't explain. (Doing one-sector reads of sectors 0 and 1
gave different results from doing a two-sector read starting with
sector 0, that's the flavor - but none of the reasonably simple
explanations I came up with matched the behaviour I saw; I never did
figure out what was going on. I was working remotely, which may or may
not be part of why I never figured it out.)
What has anybody else done toward getting an IDE/ATA
adapter of some
sort built and stuffed into their Qbus or Unibus machine(s)?
Me? Nothing, though I *am* rather tempted to try to track down a Qbus
interface chipset, some devel pcbs, and take on the task myself.
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