15 Oct
2011
15 Oct
'11
10:31 a.m.
On 15 Oct 2011 at 9:58, Al Kossow wrote:
Here are all of the ISA controllers with a DP8473,
extracted from an
old controller list AHA-1542Bs show up at Weird Stuff fairly often. If
you need one to read the Altos floppies, LMK.
The list is quite incomplete. For example, Ultrastor ISA SCSI cards
used it (I have a 14N, for example that even supports 3 drives on the
same cable). Many DTC controllers can do likewise, though the FDC
often bears a DTC part number.
There are also some MFM and RLL and ESDI controllers that use the
same chip, but I'd have to go back and check my notes. I have a DTC
ESDI controller here that will support 4 floppy drives on a single
"flat" cable, for example.
DTK offered their "Mini micro" floppy controllers, primarily for
adding high-density support to XT-class systems; they also used the
8473. I've seen a couple on eBay.
FWIW,
Chuck