XTIDE controller now available

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: XTIDE controller now available


> Ah.  Ok, thanks all.  I didn't really consider the 8/16 bit issue, but 
> should know better.  This is a big problem when trying to find a 
> replacement drive for Apple II drive systems such as the Applied 
> Engineering Vulcan.  There are only a small handful of IDE drives that 
> will work with them.
>
>> However, one can use a CF memory card in an 8-bit IDE application, as
>> I understand that all CF cards support the 8-bit mode of ATA.
>
> That's an interesting fact I'll keep filed away!
>
> Steve
>
>
> --

I would think an 8bit SCSI version would be cool to have as well, still 
plenty of smaller SCSI drives around as well as Iomega and Syquest 
removables plus tape drives.