20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
10:22 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:38:37 -0500
Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
Does anyone have any thoughts on how hard it would be
to make a unibus
board which is an IDE controller?
I have 4-6 layer boards fabbed regularly and use modern CPLD's & VHDL
on a regular basis, so the building part looks easy.
I see two problems:
1. Bus transciever chips.
2. Software interface.
Most likely you want MSCP, but implementing a UDA50 clone is not quite
trivial. It is doable, but it would be quite some effort to write the
firmware for the controler processor. Maybe you can also implement other
emulations for RL02 or RK07 or ... That should be simpler then MSCP.
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tschüß,
Jochen
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