Date   : Sun, 03 May 2009 17:12:32 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: ADFS 1.53 patch

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <090411205501@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
> <jgh@...> writes
>
>   
>> It supports 8-bit and 16-bit /interface/, ADFS is an 8-bit filing
>> system and so just transfers the low byte of each 16-bit data word,
>> so it's irrelavant whether you use an 8-bit interface (with no
>> access to b8-b15) or a 16-bit interface (where b8-b15 are ignored)
>>     
>
> Sorry if I'm being dim, but what's the point of the 16 bit interface,
> then?  What does the user gain?
>
>   
As I understand it, not a lot, unless they want to write their own 
filing system to make use of the extra bits.

I presume that's why the Retroclinic ones (which seem to be the most 
common IDE interface available these days) are back to being 8 bit ones.

Regards

Michael