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Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:05 pm
by RGB_Gamer
Is this possible since Compact Flash and IDE are similar?
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:42 pm
by kyuusaku
Yes, but highly irrational.
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:43 pm
by lidnariq
No. All CompactFlash cards are required to support an 8-bit wide data bus, but PATA doesn't.
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:15 am
by mikejmoffitt
lidnariq wrote:No. All CompactFlash cards are required to support an 8-bit wide data bus, but PATA doesn't.
Does the PowerPak require this? I was under the impression the FPGA/Microcontroller/Whatever that emulates the mapper is also responsible for CF card I/O, and likely has its own access to a bus wider than 8 bits.
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:39 pm
by 3gengames
The NES does everything.
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:49 pm
by tokumaru
AFAIK, the 6502 does all the I/O.
Re: Connect IDE drive to a PowerPak via Compact Flash slot?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:08 pm
by infiniteneslives
However with the NES and enough programmable logic you can do next to anything. You could create your own powerpak mapper to support >8bit I/O.
But still there isnt' much point. If one were to invest the time to do something of this nature you'd be better off to design hardware that supported something more user freindly than IDE through a CF slot... Still highly irrational.