Subject: Re: Q-bus IDE
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/21/2000 12:01:16
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:34:57AM -0700, zaft@azstarnet.com wrote:
> >
> >       As long as we're talking about interfacing other boards and stuff,
> > did anything ever happen with that Q-Bus IDE card that was designed in
> > Russia?  There were posts about it a while back but I've not heard anything
> > since.
> >
> >       There's info at ftp://zane.brouhaha.com/pub/dsu/
> 
> If someone manufacture them I definitively want one :)

Why don't you simply buy a used SCSI controller ?
You're not limited to 18 inch of cable length, you can use tapes, cdrom,
disk, ...

Just my .02 cents.

cheers,
emanuel

P.S. BTW, probably a year ago, I offered to this group to make an IDE
controller with DMA.
     NOBODY was interested in an IDE version ;-)