6 Oct
2009
6 Oct
'09
12:05 a.m.
----- 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.
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.
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
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