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Re: EquiDisk+

edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:
>On 19 Feb 1998 05:39:46 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have experience with an EquiDisk+?  I picked one up for
>>a few dollars.  It looks like a DuoDisk, but the two 5.25" drives are half
>>height.  It has a proprietary controller card.  The drives show up under
>>ProDOS as 800K drives!  There are three outlets in the back of the case
>>for the monitor and computer to plug into.  Standard double-density
>>disks format in the drives, but high density disks don't format at all.
>
>Format to what capacity?  The Lisa's twiggy disks formatted to some
>bigaz capacity like 880K or something, didn't they?  Your proprietary
>controller may be seeing them as 800K drives because, like the dumbaz
>slot ID'ing program I made, it only checks the card's ID byte, and not
>the pertinent SmartPort info.  This could cause all SmartPort devices
>(could include hard drives, floppies, and other disk devices) to be
>identified as 800K 3.5" drives.

It formats to 800K and that's not just an illusion.  The drives do not work
in GS/OS, only in ProDOS.  Copy II Plus can copy all of a 3.5" disk to
5.25" double density disks formatted in these drives.  Data and programs
stored on these disks check out to work ok.