At 4:30 PM +0100 7/3/00, Dan Logan wrote:
>Does anyone know what the max throughput of the 2400 floppy connector is,
>because I was wondering about wiring up a CD  drive to that style of
>connector but I was a little concerned about the exact details of the
>interface...

Forget about it.  Use the SCSI port.

The floppy connector is not a digital interface which you could 
interface to a CD.  It connects the floppy controller circuit in the 
2400 to a floppy disk drive's read/write heads, drive motor, and head 
position stepper motor.

It is theoretically possible to create a circuit that interfaces a 
SCSI or IDE CD to a floppy controller, but there wouldn't be much 
point in doing that.  It would be quite slow, since you would only be 
able to read data as fast as a floppy drive can.

   Tim Seufert
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