Re: [9fans] Wireless PCI Card

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/07, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
> Paweł Lasek wrote:
> > However this won't support non-data PCMCIA cards, so it wouldn't help.
> > I have yet to hear about someone making IDE interface to anything
> > other than storage,
>
> Google will find you some...

> Granted, the 'bus attached' (PCI) PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter is more flexible.
>
> And agreed there is not a lot of stuff marketed that uses IDE for other than HDD
> or their emulators, but that is convention and sparse interest in doing
> otherwise, not a technical limitation.
>
> An IDE channel is just another 'mildly specialized' parallel port at the
> hardware level.  One can do a great deal with those with a bit of coding.

Okey, I meant something that can be easily used without preparing a
driver (I haven't seen driver for such a think in Plan9). I know that
you can do pretty much everything - the question is when is this level
of tinkering sensible. I think that I can remake a K7 motherboard into
EV6 Alpha machine with less trouble (Except for making those DDR
signals arrive at exact times... then you just need to reflash the
bios with SRM :D)

> Bill
>
>


-- 
Paul Lasek