29 Jun
2001
29 Jun
'01
5:15 a.m.
I didn't mention what the target interface was -
it is, in fact, IDE
- and the thread on that topic (from some time last year, I think) is
how I found this mailing list when I did a search to see if anyone
had already done this.
Have you looked at the schematics and drivers for the Ukranian
QBUS IDE interface?
I agree that the 18" IDE cable length makes
things tight, but I can't
see myself putting a drive on the board itself since I was hoping
to get this whole thing on a dual height card and I just don't see
there being enough room even for a PC card form factor drive.
(of course I suppose I could just use a Compact Flash memory card ...)
You could use one of the IBM Microdrives in that case. That would be
kind of interesting. Small, fast, and removable.
I've been thinking of building the Ukranian IDE adapter. If I do,
I am thinking of building it on a quad card and putting the drive
on the CD side to use it with my Q-CD backplane. I'd put the
DZQ11 and DELQA above the card so there will be two empty CD slots
above the drive.
I should probably add that another motivation for
doing this would
be to hook up an LS120 drive to give me some removeable storage
that's more convenient than my dual RX02's.
Now that would be handy.
If I could just find a good, MSCP QBUS SCSI card I'd not need to
bother, though, but they are hard to find and expensive. I'd
trade my space Alphastation 200 4/233 for one.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net