Patrick McNamara wrote: >>> Another option might be to make a daughter board with the appropriate >>> drivers and termination for a simple SCSI bus. Even a simple SCSI-1 >>> bus would allow for a full download in less than a minute, >>> uncompressed. >> Download to what though? Does that readily connect to a SCSI controller >> in the debugging workstation? Will that workstation have a SCSI >> controller? >> >> Lourens > > > I don't think it is at all unreasonable to use something like SCSI. Cheap > SCSI cards can be had for $30US and if you really insist on using a laptop, > you can find USB to SCSI adapters for around $60US. Something we need to > keep in mind here. Debugging a PCI interface is not an "average hobbyist" > task. Needing somewhat "specialized" hardware to accomplish it is not > unrealistic. >
If thinking this way then USB-to-IDE would be cheaper (<$10), enough fast (25MB/s +) and probably ATA is also simpler to implement than SCSI. I'd rather choose IDE, its quite universal - having PATA directly and you get also USB / FW / SATA with commercially available converters. Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
