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Paul D.Smith
OK, maybe the wrong forum so if so, please point me elsewhere...
Has anyone here come across, or even built, an adaptor to allow a modern-ish
drive (IDE/compact flash?) to be used as a replacement for a circa-1990 SMD
hard-drive. OK, so it's a long shot but you never know...
"Why" you ask? Because there is still equipment doing sterling work which
uses these drives and like-for-like replacements are $3,000.00 (for a 20MB
disk!) from specialist refurbishers. OTOH, CompactFlash devices are cheap
and how hard can it be to convert between two different drive interfaces,
says the computer bod with no electronics experience who wouldn't know where
to start!
Paul DS.
Has anyone here come across, or even built, an adaptor to allow a modern-ish
drive (IDE/compact flash?) to be used as a replacement for a circa-1990 SMD
hard-drive. OK, so it's a long shot but you never know...
"Why" you ask? Because there is still equipment doing sterling work which
uses these drives and like-for-like replacements are $3,000.00 (for a 20MB
disk!) from specialist refurbishers. OTOH, CompactFlash devices are cheap
and how hard can it be to convert between two different drive interfaces,
says the computer bod with no electronics experience who wouldn't know where
to start!
Paul DS.