new toy!

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 19:53:39 1999

Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com> wrote:
> It just
> seems to me that if you could make the 8-bit IDE interface look like the
> WD1002-HDO interface - same commands and responses - to the BIOS that
> everything should fall into place and the o/s wouldn't know or care
> whether it was IDE or ST506. Obviously, I am missing something!

IDE interface is just data buffers, no smarts. That is all
on the drive. For ST506 the smarts are in the interface and
none on the drive. Since the registers are different for
both, unless you put a PIC or something between the two,
you won't be ab;e to treat them the same.
Dwight
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 19:53:39 GMT