'' Re: [Open-graphics] A really good immediate use for OGD1: PCI bus analyzer

[Daniel Rozsnyó]

Patrick McNamara wrote:
>>> Another option might be to make a daughter board with the appropriate
>>> drivers and termination for a simple SCSI bus.  Even a simple SCSI-1
>>> bus would allow for a full download in less than a minute,
>>> uncompressed.
>> Download to what though? Does that readily connect to a SCSI controller 
>> in the debugging workstation? Will that workstation have a SCSI 
>> controller?
>>
>> Lourens
> 
> 
> I don't think it is at all unreasonable to use something like SCSI.  Cheap SCSI cards can be had for $30US and if you really insist on using a laptop, you can find USB to SCSI adapters for around $60US.  Something we need to keep in mind here.  Debugging a PCI interface is not an "average hobbyist" task.  Needing somewhat "specialized" hardware to accomplish it is not unrealistic.  
> 

If thinking this way then USB-to-IDE would be cheaper (<$10), enough
fast (25MB/s +) and probably ATA is also simpler to implement than SCSI.

I'd rather choose IDE, its quite universal - having PATA directly and
you get also USB / FW / SATA with commercially available converters.

Daniel