Ive looked around the net at various 1541 interfaces, and one thing Im confused about... why hasnt someone simply (and i use that term very loosely) taken the motherboard out of a 1541, and modified it to write to an HD or SD card, etc.. meaning have something actually intercept the low level drive manipulations and translate them for a different device. Seems this would give really good compatibility. Since the 1541 is essentially a computer in its own right, it seems that interfacing to it directly should be possible. Thoughts?
Have a butcher's at the hardware projects section of Ruud Baltissen's website (http://www.baltissen.org/newhtm/hardware.htm), specifically the links for 1541IDE and 1541IDE8.
I think you'll have the worst of both worlds. imperfect compatibility in an oversize package. Once you drop the drive from the 1541, all but the 6522/6502/ROM/and RAM are unneeded. You're carrying around a large board just for a tiny SD/CF card.
Ruud's idea to interface an IDE drive makes sense because an IDE drive is large and needs a large housing. But, a CF/SD card is tiny.
Jim
Jim's right... Still, it'd be interesting to have a huge 1541 drive with a tiny little SD card slot in the front. ;)
Quote from: brain on October 23, 2008, 09:21 AMRuud's idea to interface an IDE drive makes sense because an IDE drive is large and needs a large housing.
I should send Ruud a message asking how his project is doing. When I last met him at the Netherlands Commodore Show in June, it wasn't working. He didn't say much about what was wrong, but he was disappointed and apolegetic.
Perhaps it is fixed by now,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
CommVEx v5 info - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX
http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/
Just taken delivery of mine ;D
Pete.