It also means if anyone finds some blank PDC20268R's and has a heat gun, we can make some VST clones by popping off the PDC20268's on the free controllers that come with large modern hard drives and soldering on the R versions. You should be able to flash these in a universal EPROM programmer like you flash any other microcontroller (like a PIC).
Mad Dog and I and possibly others are capable of the soldering. I don't know where you'd get the supply of PDC20268Rs--buy them from Promise? I have a universal programmer, a Needham EMP-30, but I think there'd have to be software support for the Promise chip from Needham. That does not seem likely, unless Promise provides it or if the PDC20268R is programmed in the same fashion as a more generalized chip such as one of the PICs.
Also, a socket to fit the PDC20268R would be needed in order to get it onto the programmer and the socket adapters typically cost $150 +/- $50.
Jeff Walther
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