jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (03/17/90)
How do I do this? I've seen ads for a product called AX-S (or something similar), but the price was seemed really high. Being a bus architecture neophyte, I assume that it's a matter of getting the pinouts matched up, and having an AmigaDos driver to talk to the device. How off am I? -- J. Eric Townsend University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120 jet@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(tm).
dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) (03/17/90)
In article <1990Mar16.194554.19026@lavaca.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: > How do I do this? I've seen ads for a product called AX-S (or something > similar), but the price was seemed really high. > > Being a bus architecture neophyte, I assume that it's a matter of > getting the pinouts matched up, and having an AmigaDos driver to talk > to the device. How off am I? > -- > J. Eric Townsend > University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120 > jet@karazm.math.uh.edu > Skate UNIX(tm). This is the way the Wedge hard drive controller on the A1000 operates. There are only four or five chips on their interface board, which are mainly involved with making sure that the bus gets connected only when it is supposed too. (Note that the WEDGE dosen't auto-configure or play any other magic...) It seems like it would be pretty easy to hook up a card that would allow you to access the IBM slots like amiga slots, and use IBM cards with some device drivers you would have to cook up. (Is this a "Passive Bridgeboard"?) I assume the palomax controller and such do the same thing for their XT-type slots... Dave Williams dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu "Huh? What? Could you repeat the question?"