On 6/7/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paweł Lasek wrote:
> However this won't support non-data PCMCIA cards, so it wouldn't help.
> I have yet to hear about someone making IDE interface to anything
> other than storage,
Google will find you some...
Granted, the 'bus attached' (PCI) PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter is more flexible.
And agreed there is not a lot of stuff marketed that uses IDE for other than HDD
or their emulators, but that is convention and sparse interest in doing
otherwise, not a technical limitation.
An IDE channel is just another 'mildly specialized' parallel port at the
hardware level. One can do a great deal with those with a bit of coding.
Okey, I meant something that can be easily used without preparing a
driver (I haven't seen driver for such a think in Plan9). I know that
you can do pretty much everything - the question is when is this level
of tinkering sensible. I think that I can remake a K7 motherboard into
EV6 Alpha machine with less trouble (Except for making those DDR
signals arrive at exact times... then you just need to reflash the
bios with SRM :D)
Bill
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Paul Lasek
