Re: Get my schematic files before you hurt yourself

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This message was posted by The Dumper, posted on July 08, 2001 at 14:27:58 coming from 216.127.80
This message is a reply to Re: Get my schematic files before you hurt yourself posted from Mark posted at July 08, 2001 at 12:20:34
> > > That cd rom is not standard ATAPI interface(need spical or creative SB16 interface card to run), so it is much harder to covert to ATAPI CD rom. I will keep working on it tomorrow.

> > Sweet Jesus De don't try to hook up the CR563 to an IDE interface, you might blow out something. It's not an IDE drive.

> Of course that's true. But it is possible to convert a Panasonic-interface drive to IDE. I have a small converter board which does just that. I don't remember exactly which ICs it contains, but there were at least two PALs/GALs, so it is not trivial.

> The converter is almost certainly not bidirectional, so could not be used to connect an IDE CD-ROM drive to a GDSF 7 or Professor SF II. (Admittedly I didn't try, but I am not going to risk damaging the converter board -- or an old PC sound card with Panasonic interface -- by trying.)

> -- Mark

The idea here is to build a PCB that allows you to connect up a CR-563 CD-ROM drive to a Game Doctor SF7. This is the PCB that is inside the CD7.

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Message	> > > > That cd rom is not standard ATAPI interface(need spical or creative SB16 interface card to run), so it is much harder to covert to ATAPI CD rom. I will keep working on it tomorrow. > > > Sweet Jesus De don't try to hook up the CR563 to an IDE interface, you might blow out something. It's not an IDE drive. > > Of course that's true. But it is possible to convert a Panasonic-interface drive to IDE. I have a small converter board which does just that. I don't remember exactly which ICs it contains, but there were at least two PALs/GALs, so it is not trivial. > > The converter is almost certainly not bidirectional, so could not be used to connect an IDE CD-ROM drive to a GDSF 7 or Professor SF II. (Admittedly I didn't try, but I am not going to risk damaging the converter board -- or an old PC sound card with Panasonic interface -- by trying.) > > -- Mark > The idea here is to build a PCB that allows you to connect up a CR-563 CD-ROM drive to a Game Doctor SF7. This is the PCB that is inside the CD7.
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