I see I made a mistake in my previous message. The card I have is an "Apple UniDisk 3.5 controller" - the one that has only an IWM and some support chips. I think the Liron card is only needed to interface non-UniDisk drives (like the Apple 3.5" drive, the Macintosh 800 kb. drive or the SuperDrive). I've read that this is because an 1 Mhz 6502 can't cope with the data transfer rate of the 3.5" drives, and thus it needs help from another processor. In the case of the UniDisk 3.5", that processor is in the drive itself, and thus you can use a "dumb" controller. In the case of the drives designed for the //gs and the Macintosh, the drive is "dumb", and the processor must be in the controller card.
Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> Hal ha escrito: > Hi. The Apple 3.5 drive and the Unidisk 3.5 are completely different > drives. I'm not sure that an Apple 3.5 controller will work with a > Unidisk 3.5 in a //e. I thought you needed the Liron controller card to > work with the Unidisk drives. Am I wrong here? > > I do know that you can't daisychain a 3.5 and a 5.25 (or a duodrive) on > the same controller on a //e. I believe that the IWM chip on the drive > card will only work with one kind of drive, either it's a 5.25 > controller card or a 3.5. > > Hope this helps. > > -Hal -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
