[ale] burning blu-ray discs

[Michael Trausch]

On 8/13/2014 5:05 PM, Scott Plante wrote:
> Of course, good luck finding a controller for that 10 yr old IDE hard drive in another 30 years! Same problem for all this media to some extent though.
Ah, but no!

http://opencores.org/project,ata

An open-hardware IDE controller.

All one has to do is stick that on a PCB with an interface to the 
appropriate system bus, and either implement standardized firmware or a 
custom operating system driver...

     --- Mike