Q-bus to CF [was: IOmega]

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:47:07 -0500
> Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> 
>> MSCP is a complex protocal whols primary job is to create a logical 
>> abstraction hardware from the software and I don't think an atmel uP
>> is enough and definatly enough ram plus enough is not known to create
>> it(MSCP) from scratch.
> 1. There is http://www.mscpscsi.com/
> 2. There are several different Atmels. The 8 bit AVR line, 32 bit AVR32
> and 32 bit ARM core based contolers. The later features a DMA engine...
> uCLinux runs on the ARM based devices. The AVR32 has a MMU and thus is
> capable of running "regular" Linux.
> 
> Hell! With an AVR32 on the disk contoler the disk contoler can _emulate_
> a VAX or PDP-11 at higer speed then the real CPU in your QBus box!
> 
> PATA <=> SATA: SATA is a serial transport for ATAPI and ATAPI is more or
> less a subset of SCSI...

I was planning on using an 8-bitter with a couple-K of RAM built-in and 
a built-in IDE interface.

Peace...  Sridhar