Yes, and I'm not arguing with his eminently sensible decision; simply voicing a whim and an opinion.
It's self evident that an SD card interface plugged into the expansion slot or even the ROM port would be a faster and more flexible solution than attempting to emulate a microdrive, and several orders of magnitude faster than a serial USB interface! Thanks for reminding me that it's not just a matter of fitting the SD card carrier into the hole vacated by the microdrive. ;) Adrian -----Original Message----- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Plastic Sent: 07 February 2011 14:30 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Adrian Ives <adr...@acanthis.co.uk> wrote: > Actually I think that's a shame, Peter. I know there are technical > and performance issues with going the MDV emulation route, maybe even > insurmountable ones, but it had that kind of "Wow Factor" about it. I > imagined it as the microdrive version of the Hxc Floppy Drive Emulator. > > But, anyway, if there was already an expansion bus (or ROM port) > connected SD card interface then I wouldn't be pursuing the Ser-USB > project, which was really the point I was making about product demand. It is trivial to design a SD card "carrier" that fits in the microdrive slots. The harder part is designing the interface, which is what I believe Peter has done. Peter has taken the capacity of SDHC cards and decided that them acting like HDs is better than them acting like microdrives, but this is separate from physically placing them in the microdrive slots - which is quite feasible as a simple adaption of what he has done. Peter, would you be interested in letting your interface use a SDHC carrier that fits in the MDV slot, if someone else designs/builds it? Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
