3 Aug
2014
3 Aug
'14
3:08 a.m.
On Aug 3, 2014 12:11 AM, "Tom Gardner" <t.gardner at computer.org> wrote:
Anyone have any specs on any of the several chips or controllers that were
used to bridge IDE HDDs to another interface such as PP, FW or USB. I'm
thinking of products of Shuttle Technology, Indigita, ASP, etc.
Alternatively, can anyone point me to an open source driver code for such
bridges, perhaps Linux?
The USB-to-IDE and FW-to-IDE bridges generally don't need a specific
driver. They use the generic USB or FW mass storage drivers provided by the
OS. Certainly that's always been the case for Linux; maybe vendor drivers
were provided for W98.
I've never seen a PP-to-IDE bridge, but PP-to-SCSI bridges were common, and
there was no standard for them, so they did need drivers.