Re: crippled SWIM card?

[glynnet@zero.cypher.com (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <1993Apr24.145448.7624@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:




>Because the PC Transporter doesn't have a normal SWIM.  I think it is
>an IWM with extra features added on to handle MFM format and
>PC-compatible disk drives.  It probably has hardware support to get
>around the variable-speed rotation of the Apple 3.5 Drive, which is not
>present in a normal SWIM chip.  The software in the PC Transporter may
>also be doing some clever tricks.
>
>Whatever it does, it is horrendously slow, and not 100% reliable.
>Some people, including myself, cannot use a real PC to access 720k
>3.5" disks that have been formatted in an Apple 3.5 Drive by a PC
>Transporter.
>-- 
>David Empson                                                               
>dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz    <--- Note my new E-Mail address!            
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand 

Sorry for the blank lines.  How do you delete lines in vi <I hate vi!>?

Anyway, I have a PC Transporter and have no problems with reading 3.5" PC
disks on a PC from the PCT.  The trick being that the disk must be FORMATTED
on the PC and NOT the PCT!  You WILL have problems if it is formatted on the
PCT.