On Monday 29 December 2003 11:00, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> With Digital's patent's on MSCP expired or nearly so, I wonder what
> it would take to build a converter to attach to a
> UDA-50/KDA-50/KDB-50... The interface chips and cables could be
> scavenged from a dead RA81, but I have no idea what it would take to
> build a box that spoke SCSI or IDE out one end, and SDI out the
> other... any takers? It might be easier than the ST506 converter
> we've been discussing. At least in this case, it's digital in and
> out, with no sampling required.
I've actually got a box I acquired called a 'SMD Disk replacement
subsystem", which is a PC minitower case with a fairly large logic
board in it (about the size of an AT or maybe baby AT motherboard) and
an ESDI drive in it. I can try to take some pictures of it if anyone's
interested.
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Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 10:10:01 GMT