Re: Wanted: Lazer Universal Disk Controller

["Robert Collet" <collet@worldnet.att.net>]

 Sorry for the false alarm :). Unfortunely, I'm moving in a couple days so
its packed away. Its about the size of a disk II controller (the laser disk
drive itself is half the size of a apple II drive) does have two ports on
it, although I havent tried it with 3.5 yet. Who's stupid idea was it to
make a card that only ran DOS 3.3 anyway? I dont suppose you have any idea
of how to get the thing to read prodos? When I use those diskettes (which
work fine with a disk II controller) it says DOS 3.3 FOUND and quits to the
assembler while the disk drive spins. It writes prodos images just fine, and
when I use a utility that lets you view the contents of prodos disks from
dos 3.3 I can read and write to them, but it refuses to boot.
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
19990828135736.29668.00001217@ng-fk1.aol.com">news:19990828135736.29668.00001217@ng-fk1.aol.com...
> "Robert Collet" <collet@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >I dont know if its the same controller I have, but the laser disk
controller
> >and disk drive I use only works with dos 3.3, and pascal, and wont boot
> >prodos or run GEOS for that matter. Its really weird, I tried adjusting
the
> >speed and every diagnostic I've used turns out fine. When the IIe boots
up
> >with the laser card installed, it says"DOS 3.3 FOUND" in the upper right
> >hand corner, regardless of what type of disk I put in. Anyways, I dont
know
> >if this is the type you are looking for (mine has a 5.25 disk drive
hooked
> >up to it), but you might want to make sure it doesnt share this flaw.
>
> That's definitely not the Laser controller he has in mind (which
> I recommended).
>
> The Laser UDC card works fine with ProDOS and I used GEOS
> with it on my IIe back in my IIe days.
>
> What does your card look like?
>
> The Laser UDC is a half-length card with two DB ports.  It should
> say "Video Technologies" or "V-Tech" on the card.