Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

From: Roger Ivie <rivie_at_ridgenet.net>
Date: Sun Dec 7 17:54:26 2003

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Dec 7, 19:26, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > OK, many machines used Western Digital hard disk controller chipsets
> and
> > had relatively standard formats, but others didn't. Some
> manufacturers
> > used homebrew controllers -- 2910-based state machines, 8X300-based
> > microcontrollers, ASICs, etc.
>
> RQDXn controllers come to mind :-(

RQDX1 and RQDX2 used homebrew controllers. RQDX3 used SMC's 9224, which
is format-compatible with Western Digital.
-- 
Roger Ivie
rivie_at_ridgenet.net
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Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 17:54:26 GMT

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