That's a good idea! A serial connection will also work, but parallel is faster and it's supported out-of-box in DOS 6.x.
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Just for a heads up. There are two 8-bit aztech cards on eBay with some sort of drive-interfaces.
If they are IDE or not, I have no clue on.
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wrote:Some if not most 8bit soundcards (SB2 clones, SB Pro, etc.) use the 16bit part of the ISA slot for the IDE interface (please tell me if I'm wrong on this).
Only the 8 most significant bits (D08 through D15) are routed to the 16-bit portion of the ISA slot.
If you have an ATA device that supports 8-bit transfers (CF cards, a handful of HDDs), there's no reason it can't be used in a 5160 XT or higher, using a regular 16-bit IDE controller and the XTIDE BIOS. (Not a 5150 for reasons I explain in my video on the topic)
To use normal HDDs that require 16-bit transfers, you need a "proper" XTIDE card that interleaves the high and low words on to the 8-bit data bus.
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