G1-ATA Devices

[OzOnE]

Ahh, cybdyn!

That's a strange co-incidence. lol

Sorry, I've been busy again, and hadn't had chance to reply to your last email.

Did you manage to get some of those MCU chips yet?
I can order some if you still need them?

If you're close to getting the G1-IDE Adv boards running, then I might hold off with getting my simple adapter made.
Your design would be a much nicer solution, so I'd rather help you get it made.

Is the Adv adapter intended to be used mainly with Dreamshell, or is it a replacement for the DCIO too?

Yes, I kind of got frustrated with the whole GDEMU / DCIO project for a while, but I may be starting to have a bit of fun with it again.

It was also that there wasn't much I could help you with in the end, 'cos your coding is a different style to mine, and you were / are doing some much more advanced debugging than I can do.

I'd still rather see your projects get released though, as I think it will be a much neater solution in the end.

OzOnE.

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btw, I may have a non-solder solution for leaving the GD drive in place while attaching an IDE device as Slave.

It's fairly obvious what it is (flex cable), but will take quite a bit of designing to get it working reliably.

The problem is, there isn't much space inside the case for even a 2.5" HDD anyway, and personally I'd rather do away with the GDD altogether.
So, it may not be worth trying to fit the IDE device inside the standard case tbh.

It looks like the G1-IDE Adv will allow the GDD to be removed, which would be the ideal way.

OzOnE.