Re: NTLK IBM Microdrives and the Newton - Fancy a challange??

From: J. van de Griek (Joost_van_de_Griek@nl.yachtgroup.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 08:46:40 CDT


newtontalkrequest@planetnewton.com wrote:

> Just an idle thought - Anybody fancy writing a driver so that the Newton
could
> read/write to IBM microdrives? With 170Mb-1Gb capacity, you would never
run
> out of staorage space and they would make excellent backup devices...

The IBM microdrive is an ATA CompactFlash II device, so if the venerable
Paul Guyot succeeds in writing an ATA driver for the Newton, you're golden.

,xtG
..tsooJ

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