> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Brown [SMTP:brent.brown@CLEAR.NET.NZ]
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:24 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT]:  digital camera picture storage
> Another idea I can visualize is a 3.5" floppy drive sitting on top of
> a 3.5" hard drive. Buy a memory card floppy drive adaptor and bang,
> all your hardware is done for you. With this scheme the floppy drive
> and hard drive interfaces are very similar and may be able to share
> circuitry and software in your micro interface.
>
The original 3.5" floppy interface is completely different to an IDE one,
and much harder to interface to a PIC.  Seems wastefull to have to use a
floppy adapter when the PIC could just read the memory device directly?

Mike

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