Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!tplrd!markb From: markb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Mark Bower) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: IBM-XT to AMiga Hard drive interface... (+ LUCAS?) Message-ID: <1991May13.002425.24302@tplrd.tpl.oz.au> Date: 13 May 91 00:24:25 GMT References: <12493@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems Lines: 32 In article johnf@ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan) writes: >In article <12493@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) writes: > >>I have been meaning for some time to write a short report on my building >>of the ByNery Shareware Hard Disk interface, which allows you to interface >>an IBM XT type Hard disk to your Amiga, but It hasn't happened. >>SO, I'll just report that it works marvelously. > >Well, I have just built it myself, and yes, indeed, it does work >just fine IF you get one of the recommended controllers. I tried a >different controller, but it lacked the IOR* and IOW* lines used >to communicate in this project (I guess it used a memory-mapped I/O >scheme). So make sure that any controller you consider getting, if it >is not one of the recommended Western Digital ones, has all the >interface lines listed as being used in the schematic. > Where do you get the info for the XT HD interface ? Could anyone send it to me, I'd be most grateful for it ? What is the shareware agreement on it, I'd happily pay (!?!). Cheers, Mark Bower. | /\ ------------------------------------------------------------|/ \ /----------- Mark F. Bower. (markb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au) | \/ Telectronics Pacing Systems | "Sorry - No quotes today" R & D | 7 Sirius Rd. | Lane Cove 2066 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------