[Coco] new high density controller
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Wed Aug 9 15:26:02 EDT 2006
I've got some Intel 82077 chips on their way. They seem simple to
interface to a CoCo, and support 250,300,500, 1M and 2M transfer rates.
You could run a 2.88MB floppy!
They also have a 16 byte FIFO. I'd think that would be enough such that
it could be used as a no-halt controller without having to rig up a
Disto-like buffering contraption.
My plan would be to use both a WD1773 and 82077 in the same physical
controller attached to one set of drives. This would be 100% CoCo
compatible until you enabled the 82077 with a driver.
If anyone's interested, or has input, let me know.
-Mike
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