Re: S-100 IDE V2 boards have arrived!

[Nick Papadonis <nick.pa...@gmail.com>]

Isn't it also possible to remove the compact flash card, insert into a
USB compact flash reader, use Unix "dd" to image the drive and write
it back out to another CF card?  I thought this was a byte by byte
copy of the media?

Thanks

On Jul 1, 8:16 pm, "John Monahan" <mon...@vitasoft.org> wrote:
> Matt from a software prospective the boards behave very similar. The same
> software works on both. It's just with the original board only one CF
> card/drive is available.
>
> From a hardware point of view the Dual is more useful. It's really nice to
> save CF cards back and forth.  Of course you can use the single by moving
> stuff back and forth with a hdisk/floppy, (disable the power on the board
> (with the switch provided), add a second CF-card, add back CF card power,
> reset your system (^C in CPM), and them put stuff on to the second card, but
> it becomes a real pain over time.  From a reliability prospective they are
> identical. (never lost a bit yet!)
>
> John
>
> From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Matthew Turner
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 3:30 PM
> To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:338] S-100 IDE V2 boards have arrived!
>
> Hey Andrew!
>
> I've been meaning to ask - are these functionally much different than the v1
> IDE boards? I ask because I have three of those waiting to be assembled.
> Yes, I am somewhat behind schedule.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Turner
>
>   _____  
>
> From: lyn...@yahoo.com
> To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:336] S-100 IDE V2 boards have arrived!
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:22:02 -0400
>
> Hi!  Good news!  The S-100 IDE V2 PCBs have arrived!  
>
> They are $20 each plus $3 shipping in the US and $6 elsewhere.
>
> Please send a PayPal to LYN...@YAHOO.COM and I will send your boards right
> away!
>
> Thanks and have a nice day!
>
> Andrew Lynch