27 Nov
2002
27 Nov
'02
5:56 p.m.
Rumor has it that John Allain may have mentioned these words:
This is MHO, but I honestly don't think there's a limitation at all --
anything less than 8MB would be near pointless to monkey with as a "HD" for
the CoCo, and >512MB prolly didn't exist at the time...
-- Unless, of course, there's the possibility that there were some
flashcards that were smaller than 8MB that didn't have the full ATA spec
built-in - these might not work - not due to the adapter, but due to the
drivers for the CoCo IDE interface...
'Course, you could zing him off an email - he'd be the best one to talk to
about that...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Well, I can
find a *little* cheaper than $25 -- Cloud9 has a CFIDE
adapter for $20 -- will plug straight into the IDE port from the looks
of it...
http://www.cloud9tech.com/Hardware/CFIDE.html
On the site it states:
"all CompactFlash cards from 8MB up to 512MB"
I wonder if that's a CoCo limitation?
Adaptors I've seen like this are completely passive
with nearly 1:1 connection mappings and no logic at
all.