AT&T 7300/3B1's (was: Re: Who is vintagecomputermuseum?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Nov 2008

-- Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
 Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
  micheladam at theedge.ca wrote:
  Does anyone know of a 'bridge' converter
that would allow a scsi >disk 
 to interface to an MFM controller?

 Michel Adam  
 I'm not sure how that would work.  Do you mean replacing an >existing MFM 
 disk with a SCSI disk? 
It's been talked about at various times on the list here...

It needs high-speed sampling of the MFM data at the track level into >buffer 
memory, and some smarts to translate the buffer memory into blocks on >the drive.

It *could* be done, but nobody's made it work yet AFAIK.

cheers

Jules 
Commercial products exist, for example at: 
www.mbiusa.com/mbi_000010.htm

But I imagine they're *FRIGHTFULLY* expensive . . . .

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