There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) — arguably overkill for the task, but too impressive ...

The SAS Initiator Controller IP Core provides an interface to high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel SCSI attachment of mass storage devices. Maximum supported bandwidth is 48 Gbps. ...

With a 1:1 interleave, the disk controller must be fast enough to read sector 2 after it reads sector 1, otherwise the beginning of sector 2 will pass by the read/write head and require a full ...