16 Apr
2007
16 Apr
'07
1:45 a.m.
Rumor has it that David Comley may have mentioned these words:
Oddly enough, I've been working on a design for an
MFM
drive replacement on and off for a while now. I don't
believe that flash memory is the way to go though with
cheap and plentiful IDE drives available.
Ah, but the beauty of this is, if you make it IDE compatible, you already
*have* flash compatibility - just slap a CompactFlash module of your
preferred size into a CF->IDE adapter, and Bob's your uncle!
I doubt there were MFM drives (read: ST506) available that hit the
gigglebyte size, but 1G CF drives are not only plentiful (I have two on my
desk right now, for my Nikon D70) but now they're quite inexpensive.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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