Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax QBUS IDE?!
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: None <mew_list@earthlink.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/24/2002 08:18:14
At 09:24 PM 11/21/02 +0100, der Mouse wrote:
>If *you* want to, be my guest.  But otherwise, it seems silly to
>criticize people who *are* doing something because they made design
>tradeoffs differently from how you would have.  I know I would
>certainly rather have a non-MSCP IDE interface in hand than have a
>dream of an MSCP-speaking version.
>
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 Has anyone considered prototyping this PIO/IDE interface in Simh? I will also 
point out that the little compact flash devices are IDE interface. A Q-bus card
 with a couple of 128MB CF cards would make a nice uVAX system...

--Mitch