17 Mar
1999
17 Mar
'99
7:33 p.m.
I'd like to try working on a ECP parallel
interface to one. It's mostly to
realize what I'd done in the '70s with home grown tapes based on cassette
transports trying to make something as good as DECtape!
I've already got one hooked up to a parallel port, and if you run under an
"operating system" that lets you disable interrupts (such as MS-DOS), it
doesn't require either ECP or EPP.
The drive that I was using for this experiment had seriously messed up
head alignment, but now I have another drive to try.
The caching SCSI controller project was just for fun, which means that
it probably won't get finished.
Of course, the simple way to cache a DECtape is to read the entire tape into
the cache.
Eric