On 8 Jan 2007 at 16:27, dave06a at
dunfield.com wrote:
I have a Eurocom laptop with a connecter to which
connects
an external 5.25" drive enclosure - this appears as a standard
floppy drive connected via the FDC - such an arrangement
should work OK with ImageDisk - I'm pretty sure there are other
older laptops with similar external drive schemes.
That Grid 1040 I sold on ePay had such an interface. However, the
hard drive interface was like nothing I'd ever seen before or since.
I wonder how many modern laptop/notebooks even have the FDC
controller inside.
As I mentioned, the Backpack can be talked to (if you've got the
right driver) at low level--it has a NSC 8477, a bit of SRAM and a
microcontroller in it that does nothing but relay the commands and
data to the 8477.
Cheers,
Chuck