It's an interesting project, but I'm not getting emotionally invested in any new ideas, until I actually complete some old ones. I'm mostly focusing on making a living these days. It's going well, but takes a lot time. I'm working for Roku and we just got the new 4K TV models to market. Summer was bussssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
As I understand it, Acard's converter cards contain a custom processor of some sort. It may be a variant on an existing architecture, or it could be something their designers built from scratch. If the latter, reading out hte attached ROM isn't likely to mean much. It's probably full of object code for their custom processor.
I'm also not htat convinced that some of their products are ATAPI only or disk only. The ones I've tried work great for both, and I don't see why they'd go to the work to reengineer it to remove abilties. But I'm happy to read actual test results that prove me wrong.
My guess is they have one basic adapter design and they've been tacking on different SCSI/PATA/SATA protocols as necessary.
I have a book at home titled something like, The IDE and SCSI Protocols. Looking at the command sets, I think Gorgonops is right a few posts up. It's mostly goign to take the tedious work of going through and translating, with probably a few corner cases and special cases where things just don't translate easily or require additional/special handling.
As I understand it, Acard's converter cards contain a custom processor of some sort. It may be a variant on an existing architecture, or it could be something their designers built from scratch. If the latter, reading out hte attached ROM isn't likely to mean much. It's probably full of object code for their custom processor.
I'm also not htat convinced that some of their products are ATAPI only or disk only. The ones I've tried work great for both, and I don't see why they'd go to the work to reengineer it to remove abilties. But I'm happy to read actual test results that prove me wrong.
My guess is they have one basic adapter design and they've been tacking on different SCSI/PATA/SATA protocols as necessary.
I have a book at home titled something like, The IDE and SCSI Protocols. Looking at the command sets, I think Gorgonops is right a few posts up. It's mostly goign to take the tedious work of going through and translating, with probably a few corner cases and special cases where things just don't translate easily or require additional/special handling.