Beer 202 IDE interface

Master (154)

13-10-2003, 08:08

Does anybody know if this ide interface by Egor Voznesenski (SOLID) works?
If so, how etc.
It looks simple to build, with a very interesting disk rom source.
Also what would it's specs be?

Max hdd size
Max Partition size
etc

www.funet.fi/pub/msx/mirrors/hanso/hwdoityourself/IDE.zip

PS I still love my sunrise ide!

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Par Jazzy

Champion (472)

13-10-2003, 08:11

Well, I am not an electronics expert but can a 1995 design be better than a design wich is still developed and improved?

Par pitpan

Prophet (3156)

13-10-2003, 23:20

This is in no way a comparison, because I have a lovely Sunrise IDE CF cart that works quite well... But of couse that an old design can be good!

Is Leonardo Da Vinci a worse painter than Picasso? Time to discuss.

E.R.

Par anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

14-10-2003, 01:54

You could wonder what use it is to build an old and unsupported interface.
Sunrise ATA has lots of programs especially written for it, so you can use CD-ROM with it or FAT16, etc...

Par jpgrobler

Master (154)

14-10-2003, 13:22

You could wonder what use it is to build an old and unsupported interface.
Sunrise ATA has lots of programs especially written for it, so you can use CD-ROM with it or FAT16, etc...

The same as playing on a 3.5Mhz 8bit cpu when pentium 4 is blazing away!
Also it seems simple enough to build might work on msx1 . . .

JP
A happy user of msx and all the old stuff.

Par DaBest

Supporter (8)

17-07-2004, 19:54

Sorry to restart this topic, but i've built e beer-202 to test my MSX-1, it works, but i can't format or pratition the disk. The README on IDE.zip says that there's a program called HDPREP to make this, does someone have this program? Neither Google or other internet site seems to have it...

Thank you!

Par Retroman

Expert (85)

17-07-2004, 22:48

@DaBest

Could you perhaps make a foto of your built interface ???

Par DaBest

Supporter (8)

26-07-2004, 06:31

These are scans of the interface, I've used an old 80col. cart as base for the IDE.
http://dabest.atspace.com/MSX/MSX-IDE-1.jpg
http://dabest.atspace.com/MSX/MSX-IDE-2.jpg

Par Jazzy

Champion (472)