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Re: Is Davong (Hard Drives) still in busin



In article ms3@cleese.apana.org.au, ntt@cleese.apana.org.au (Jonathan Pratt) writes:
>I have one of these devices (and controller card), but I don't use it
>anymore - the GS doesn't like it. (or vice-versa, but who knows)

Mine won't work with a 65C02, but will with a 6502. (either in an enhanced //e)
Wanna sell it??  (serious)   Which model is it?  How may Mb? (mine's 10)

>The driver s/w actually modifies the operating systems to support this
>drive, and then you have to boot them from the drive anyway.  The bottom

The patch is incredibly minor, only a handful of bytes. (the ROM has all the
code needed)

>line is that there is no real easy way of making it ProDOS compatible
>unless you write your own ProDOS driver which I wouldn't recommend unless
>you're very bored.

Time is my biggest problem! I was hoping I had an early drive, before Davong made
a ProDOS patch for it...  I guess maybe they never wrote one.  :(

>cheers
>ntt@cleese


Later,
Kevin