Re: Can the "Liron card" run a HD? (was: Re: What kind of ][e card is this?

[tdiaz@csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

Byron Brummer (zenin@kaiwan.com) wrote:
: Randy Shackelford (shack@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: 	>snip<
: : To get a little technical, it can handle any similar intelligent devices as
: : well, such as the Chinook c hard disks.

: 	Is this true?...If so, does anyone have one of these HD's to sell?
: 	Does it need any sepcial software to do this?   Thanx for any more


The Liron card could be thought of as a "smartport" card for the //e. It does
everything that a //c's built in drive port will do, with exception of 5.25" 
drives. This includes devices such as the Chinook CT xx C, ProAPP 10/20
Quark QC10/20 and the UniDisk 3.5" Drive. There was also a 3.5" drive for
the //c by Haba Systems, the HabaDisk, it too will work with this card.

It will NOT work with an AppleDisk 3.5" Drive (Platinum) because it lacks
the needed extra timing /buffering to receive data at a faster rate. They
added this to the //c's smartport when they designed the //c+ so it could
support the newer 3.5" drives as well.

With some firmware modification it could be made to support 5.25" drives and
3.5" drives like a //c would handle it, but not at the same time, unless
you built in some phantom slotting code, which would require more EPROM space
than the 2732 thats allready on the card.

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