[Coco] Are Glenside IDE board available

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:21:53 -0400
Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

> I'm sorry, this is not clear...
> 
> You are saying you have built-up boards for $10.00 + shipping?
> 
> But, the supplied software doesn't work. Though, you can use HDBDOS
> or NitrOS9 instead?

	No, he meant the supplied software is difficult to configure.
You need to know the size of the drive (heads, cylinders, and tracks)
 and understand how to build a device descriptor. (Just like the old
days.) OR, you can use RBSuper (and friends) from Nitros-9 (which asks
the drive for those parameters) and it just works. HDBDos
(with the correct offset) just works.

> And, you can add a connector to piggy-back a disk controller for
> $9.43? (I thought there was space for two connectors?)

	There IS space for two connectors. (And they cost about $10
each and you have to solder them to the board yourself.)

> Do I have this right?
> 
> Can you post a link to a picture of a
> board?

A quick Google reveals:
http://www.hat3.net/Home/ide-interface/pictures
(Picture that says "Glenside IDE Board based on my design"


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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