Re: S6 or S5,d1-??

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
>It'd be fairly easy to build a SmartPort card that allowed more than 4
>devices. What I'd like is revised firmware for the Unidisk 3.5" controller
>(aka Liron, or SmartPort) card so that it would support 5.25" disks as
>well, kinda like the //c does it, except not using any of slot 5's IO space
>so I could re-use that slot for another card. I'm pretty sure this could be
>done, but you wouldn't be able to boot the machine off the 3.5" drive which
>kinda sucks.

That sounds just like my UDC. Mixture of 5.25 & 3.5 drives on the one controller
and able to boot off either 3.5 or 5.25 (but not Pascal 5.25 disks as the
boot blocks are wrong - the UDC makes the 5.25 drives Smartport/ProDOS block
devices).

How much space is left in the Liron firmware?
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia