If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the vaporware Iomega Drive for Dreamcast 
supposed to be ATAPI-based? There must be some IDE bus in there.

And it was supposed to fit in the modem slot...


>From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
>To: David@ixibbs.iximd.com
>CC: port-dreamcast@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: What do you think?
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:08:02 +0200 (MEST)
>
> >>>>> "David" == David  <David@ixibbs.iximd.com> writes:
>
>   David> ONE: Is the Parallel port on the dreamcast a "Parallel Port" or 
>are they
>   David> just calling it that?
>
>"They", as in SEGA, are not calling anything a "Parallel Port".  The
>port is called the "expansion port", and is not a parallel port but an
>extension of the G2 bus.
>
>
>   David> I found this site a while back about building a IDE & ISA 
>adapter:
>   David> http://members.nbci.com/_bitmaster_/dc-index.html
>   David> I thought I would ask if this is worth anything to us for two 
>main
>   David> reasons:
>
>Well, you are welcome to build one and write drivers for it.  :)
>It's not something that we can expect the average user to possess
>though.
>
>
>   // Marcus
>
>

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