Discferret broken?

6 Mar 2012

...
    [...] you (and your company) will not be around for
ever, waht
 happens when I have problems in 10 years time?  If this was the case you'd have
to write your own software for the
 board you have, but maybe USB would also not be around anymore to
 attach the board.  
 I - and, I suspect, tony - would say that's a good reason to use
 something other than USB as an interface.  It's a large part of the 

Acutally, although this is the reason I can't use either the Kryoflux or 
the Diskferret (I don;t have a machine with a USB port), I don't think 
it's a bad choice of interface in this case given the amount of data to 
be transferred. DOing it with somehting like RS232 (at, say 19200 baud) 
would take a ridiculous amount of time to transfer the pulse timings.

...
  reason I am unhappy depending on USB for anything: it
is complex
 enough, and ill-documented enough (are the specs even available without
 substantial payment and an NDA? I've never looked) that, once 
I had no problem reading an official spec on an official website for 
free. I didn't check, but I am pretty sure there was anough information 
there to build a USB host or device.

-tony

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Discferret broken?