[sebhc] H-8 question from a new list member.

[West, Ronald S.]

I am working on designing an IDE port for my H-8. I have found a few designs
on the web that are not for the H-8 directly but can be used as a good start
for the project (IDE connector pin outs, etc.).

As part of this I will put the IDE port on a plug in board (the wirewrap
board) and will mount it and a small laptop hard drive (175MB) inside the
H-8.

If all goes well I will have drives that show up as SY0, 1, 2, etc. and are
5MB or 10MB or so in size. It should speed up complicated compiles greatly.
The hard part will be the device driver. Have not written a device driver
for HDOS in a very long time so hopefully it will all come back to me ;^D

Has anyone heard of someone doing this with the H-8 or H-89 already? Sure
would be nice to help shortcut the development time and get to other cool
stuff. I have some other ideas also but they all kind of hinge on getting
away from the old floppys that are slow and failing quickly.

Thanks,

Ron
[wb4oum]
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