I have to share the designs anyway, because its going to be based on source code that's GPL...
also im trying as hard as possible to fit it on one board, the same size dimensions as a physical 2.5 HDD, that way it'll fit within the bay where a SCSI HDD rested. But there are some traces I cannot route as i am running out of room. i use pulsonix, just now getting used to it. And i still need to map out the compact flash card in the definitions files so i can put it on the board. Thats where i might run out of room. hehe.
Worse comes to worse, ill make 2 boards stacked on top of each other. itll still be within the physical height definition of the older style HDDs.
Also sparkfun has the compact flash sockets as well, which is perfect
Actually, i seen there is a FreePCB program out there, and its ALOT simpler to use than pulsonix so i may switch to it.
other than that, the maximum capable throughput using an AVR would be roughly 150 to 200KB/s which isnt too bad considering the old HDDs are slower than that...
also im trying as hard as possible to fit it on one board, the same size dimensions as a physical 2.5 HDD, that way it'll fit within the bay where a SCSI HDD rested. But there are some traces I cannot route as i am running out of room. i use pulsonix, just now getting used to it. And i still need to map out the compact flash card in the definitions files so i can put it on the board. Thats where i might run out of room. hehe.
Worse comes to worse, ill make 2 boards stacked on top of each other. itll still be within the physical height definition of the older style HDDs.
Also sparkfun has the compact flash sockets as well, which is perfect
Actually, i seen there is a FreePCB program out there, and its ALOT simpler to use than pulsonix so i may switch to it.
other than that, the maximum capable throughput using an AVR would be roughly 150 to 200KB/s which isnt too bad considering the old HDDs are slower than that...