Subject: New run of GIDE interface... Author: jbemond Date: 07 Dec 2011 11:12 am Hi all, Who would be interested in a group for a new GIDE kit ? GIDE is IDE drive for Z80 ! The GIDE interface has been developed (originally by Tilmann Reh in 1995) to enable Z80 computers to connect to IDE devices. Although the IDE bus is a 16-bit data bus the GIDE interface reads and writes in two 8-bit accesses. If there are people interested, I can start the making of 10 complete kits ! Like this : <http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/~kc-club/gide/gide6.html> After is possible to connected an IDE to Compact Flash adapter ! The Compact Flash in IDE mode works out really well with CP/M 2.2 since the maximum disk size that this OS can handle is 8MB. All of the CF cards that I have looked at have 32 sectors per track and allow 512 bytes per sector (= 16K per track) and they have just under 500 Cylinders per head. This gives a total size of just under 8MB per head and the number of heads depends on the size of the CF. (in this case 16heads x 8=128MB) Source <http://www.interak.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/current_stuff.htm> Regards, JB |
What's Happening Users Online: 14 Population: 4,309 citizens Forum Posts: 183,772 Usenet Posts: 1,467,432 Recent Forum Posts
Re: What is your weather like?
First Web Server
Upcoming Mac GUI Projects, etc |
