[Coco] CC-Five (was Re: Pseudo CoCo4???) (LONG)

[Joel Ewy]

I knew MMC used SPI, but I didn't think CF did.  Of course, CF cards can
be used as IDE.

JCE

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> On 24 Jan 2007 at 19:31, Joel Ewy wrote:

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>> What about including a controller that would look to the CoCo like a

>> WD FDC, but which actually works with CoCo disk images on removable

>> flash media, such as MMC or CF?

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> Joel

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> MMC and CF cards can work with a SPI protocol. There are HDL opensources that 

> do this and a wrapper around that could be done to make it look like the coco was 

> accessing a disk drive. That may  have already been done. The SPI protocol is rather 

> simple to understand. So this does not appear to be a major issue. 

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> james

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