Yeah, this link definitely seems to be more informative, although I'm 
not sure if I would trust a circuit diagram written by "bITmASTER32". 
;)  Most everything I'm finding would seem to indicate that people are 
using IDE hard drives, so I would assume that the gdrom is on an IDE 
bus of sorts.  Not 100% sure about that, though.

-Nik

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:20  AM, Alex Kirk wrote:
> I just had it pointed out that the last link I sent was just someone 
> using their Dreamcast as a shell for a computer; my apologies for not 
> looking closely enough, as I'm at my day job. Anyway, I went back to 
> Google to try to find a cache for (the currently down) 
> dcdev.allusion.net, which was mentioned on Slashdot as having info on 
> this a while back, without luck; however, I did find the following 
> link, which does indeed have info on the circuitry, linkups, etc.:
> http://homepages.compuserve.de/bITmASTER32/dc-index.html
> Searching for "dcdev" on Google seems to actually be more useful than 
> "Dreamcast hard drive".
> Alex Kirk
>> Philippe,  I can't tell you precisely what kind of interface it 
>> is...but I know that you can hook up a hard drive. A Google search of 
>> "Dreamcast hard drive" turns up some good stuff, including this HOWTO 
>> of hooking up a hard disk:  http://mini-itx.com/projects/dreamcastpc/ 
>>  Hope that's helpful.  Alex Kirk
>>> Hi, I'd like to know what is exactly the type of interface that 
>>> connects the
>>> GD-Rom drive to the Dreamcast's motherboard.  
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2001/01/21/0004.html  
>>> According to this link, it's some kind of scsi device ? would it be 
>>> possible
>>> to use another scsi device .. I.E. a harddrive ? If you could just 
>>> lighten
>>> me up a bit i'd be happy =).  Thanks,
>>> Philippe