Re: SuperDrives...

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "DP" == David Phillips <David_Phillips@nexus.amaq.org.au> writes:

 DP> Sorry this wont work if it did their would be a lot of IIGS's
 DP> with super drives..it has something to do with the internal ROM i
 DP> believe.. I have 2 Super drives but they are connected to a super
 DP> drive card which is in the IIGS slot

 DP> on the Early Macs to do this involves a ROM? change if you put a
 DP> 1.44 in the bay it will read like a 800k

I also thought you needed a SIWM (Super Intergrated Woz Machine).

If the IWM in the gs could physically talk to the drives, then a
software only solution would work (or a ROM solution to boot).
However, I think the GS only has a IWM, like the IIc+ and SE.

cfs
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