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Article #1585Re: IDE to ESDI Conversion. IDE & ESDI pinouts sought.
From: puma
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 15:00
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 15:00
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In article <1994Apr18.045956.8833@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>, SIR P/L <sir@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> wrote: >IDE to ESDI Conversion. IDE & ESDI pinouts sought. > >I have a couple of 400mb ESDI hard drives, and now that IDE controllers >are <$20 (in whatever country you come from) I think it's worth my whilelooking into how to wire on to the other. > >All I know so far is that BOTH require the CMOS to know the number of heads, >cylinders, etc, and that both kinds of drives seem to have roughtly the same >number of pins (ESDI are card-edge, however) > >I am convinced that it is a simple matter to hook the two together,@with >perhaps just a few logic chips in-between. I'll post the exact method >that works when I've done it. Yes, absolutely... The 'few logic chips' is called an "ESDI controller card" (IDE drives have the controller on the drive, ESDI do not). -- puma@netcom.com
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