Dreamcast ZIP Drive

[semicolo]

of course you can extend a gdrom out of the dc using an ide cable, it doesn't mean it's an ide interface, where's the schematic saying so ? I've been searching/reading a lot of documentation about dreamcast and I've never seen anyone mentioning the gdrom having an ide interface before.

[Tomlo]

I Think the Dreamcast uses a scuzzy (SCSI) bus, not at all certin though...

[Erghize]

where's the schematic saying so ?

Read my post on the last page

[semicolo]

well, the chip used in some gdroms do have ide interfaces, it still doesn't mean it's used. The chip in my dreamcast is a toshiba without ide interface.
I'd rather think the sega chips do the communications between the dreamcast and whatever cdrom chip used, ide or not.

[ptr.exe]

Currently people are more focused on things like Hard Drives which hardware wise is already complete but people are stuck at the software side of it.

I don't think anyone is focusing on that anymore, a few people made them and managed to get them working under NetBSD but got bored and abandoned the projects.

The ZIP project was probably canned by Sega because they realised it wouldn't be worhtwhile, possibly because of the difficulty in getting it to work.

[Tomlo]

ya people have gotten HD's in NetBSD do a quick google and you can even get tutorials. Thing is there isnt much you can do with NetBSD so it not a great mod. Now if they were to set the HD in the dreamcasts dashboard (like XBOX) that would be sweet.

Ya I agree sega probally never got it working themselves and didnt see a significant need by the consumers to have larger capacity storage.
When they can sell vmus for $20 each why sell something that would make vmus obsolete.

[Morph]

Funny story about the zip drive. I emailed Iomega a while back about the damned thing, and they got back with me! In fact, I talked to some of their corporate people, and they took down my #. They told me the guys who worked in that field would call me back, probably from his personal cell.

Well, he called back, I wasn't home. I never got back with them after that. Funny thing is, in the email I sent, I requested if it was possible to obtain scematics or a prototype of the unit.

*sigh* shame I never followed up. I still have their reply email.

[Tomlo]

lol, all the emails that I sent to companys were replyed with cheap computer generated messages so generic that it could be used with any question...
Sort of like what President Bush does at a press conference.
The majority of you from the UK probally wouldnt understand...