----- Original Message -----
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu@ecubics.com>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Q-bus IDE


>
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> > 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, ...

Can you say 20GB UDMA/33 for US$80?  :-)

> 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 ;-)

What kind of throughput is a QBUS capable of anyway?  Just out of
curiousity, seeing how I don't have a QBUS vax or anything.

-Andrew