--- On Fri, 4/2/11, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Peter <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ql-Users] IDE versus SD card > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 4 February, 2011, 11:02 > Hi, > > data transfer from an SD card takes 0.4 microsecond per > Byte in the most > simple mode, while the minimum cycle of the QL bus is 1.0 > microsecond. So > both IDE and SD card are faster than the QL bus. > > SD cards are smaller and cheaper than IDE drives. Both > offer more size > than a QL filesystem can use. > > If a fast SD card interface & driver for the QL was > here: Where would be > the point in IDE for the QL? Apart from being too laid-back > to copy data > to SD card once :-) > > I understand keeping the microdrive for antiquarianism, > because it was > part of the original QL. But that doesn't count for IDE. > Otherwise it > would be quite simple for me to implement. > > All the best > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > On my Acorn A3010 I use a compact flash to ide adapter which handles all of the technical stuff. The Acorn just treats it as a normal ide hard drive. http://www.zen70509.zen.co.uk/acorn/cf2.jpg Peter. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
