[rescue] Vaxen?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 27, Scott Newell wrote:
> >how hard would it be to build one of these that can go a little higher?  this
> >would be awesome for some of my older more memory limited machines.  add this
> >as a page/swap device.  with the cost of PC100 ram it would be fairly
> stinking
> >cheap to fill with space.
> 
> That's about what I was thinking when I brought it up in the first place.
> How hard is it to do a SCSI target?  IDE is fairly simple, probably simple
> enough to do it with fast logic instead of a microcontroller.

  SCSI isn't too bad if you use a standalone (i.e. non-PCI-specific)
host adapter chip.  The NCR5380 family in particular, though, really
needs a processor to frob it, though...lots of registers to twiddle.

      -Dave

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