Date   : Sun, 22 May 2005 16:12:52 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: 8-bit IDE i/f debugging

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 16:27 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <90433C5B4E334728A79547E4D4B1915.MAI@...>,
> BeebMaster <beebmaster@...> writes
> 
> >There's a lot to be said for the trusty old system of ST506 disc, Adaptec 
> >controller board and BBC
> >host adapter you know!!!
> 
> There is,

Not that easy to find operational ST506 drives nowadays though. I see
maybe four a month that I rescue amongst other stuff in case we need
them one day, but those are all untested so it wouldn't surprise me if
half of them are broken. 

>  but it's going to be so convenient to be able to bung a small
> - by PC standards - IDE disc (of which I have plenty spare) onto a Beeb.
> I'm waiting for reports that the IDE interface is debugged and working
> reliably and then will be sending an order into JGH for one.

I'd still like to see a patched ADFS that could drive a SCSI disk of 512
byte blocks through the Acorn SCSI interface (or a clone) - somehow
that's more of a period mod than this new-fangled IDE stuff :)  (and
small SCSI drives are dead easy to come by)

cheers

Jules