3 Dec
2008
3 Dec
'08
5:17 p.m.
Chris M wrote:
what I had been thinking was shouldn't it be
somewhat *easy* to make an IDE
drive into an MFM. Just strip off what you don't need!
ISTR there's still quite a bit of logic on a ST506/412 drive (I think the
manual's kicking around on Bitsavers and contains schematics) - and I'd assume
that the analogue circuitry has to be pretty closely matched the the heads
used by the HDA (and that the heads on a more modern IDE drive have different
characteristics to those on an older ST506/412 drive)
How do you make an
elephant...take a piece of stone and remove everything that don't look like
an elephant! And it's done!
Heh - it's more like taking a hippo apart and then adding the bits which turn
it into an elephant, though...
cheers
Jules