Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: smf <*smf_at_null.net*> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 23:31:58 +0000 Message-ID: <571dc80e-522b-79e9-bb1f-4ab659de91f7@null.net> · smf_at_null.net

On 08/01/2019 17:32, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>
> I know, back then there were very cheap IDE cards for ISA where they 
> even omitted the bus buffers, effectively the IDE cable was connected 
> directly to the ISA signals.
>
> From the software side, IDE behaved like a WD1003.
>
Only 8 bit IDE (used in the IBM XT and a590 amongst others).

ATA which is the official name of "IDE" (used in the IBM AT, a600, a1200 
& a4000) behaves differently.