26 Nov
2008
26 Nov
'08
11:28 a.m.
-- Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
Commercial products exist, for example at:
www.mbiusa.com/mbi_000010.htm
But I imagine they're *FRIGHTFULLY* expensive . . . .
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micheladam at theedge.ca wrote:
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 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?