Re: Turbo IDE Card description

[stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)]

In article <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
>In article <la46828@pro-cajun.cts.com> sysadm@pro-cajun.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>>Nice specs, why is it important to specify which machine (//e or //gs) when
>>you order the card.  I own both and would hope that the card is
>>interchangeable between machines like the Apple Rev C., DMA SCSI cards are.
>
>The ROM on the card is highly optimized for maximum throughput, using 65816
>commands in the GS version. You can order both ROMs (if I recall correctly,
>a ROM costs $10), so if you want to swap machines (which you don't do every
>day normally, anyway ;), you just exchange the ROM and that's it.

	Although, in theory, you should be able to use the //e version
in both machines.  That way, you wouldn't have to swap ROM chips.

	Soenke, you should get Joachim to test it, but it should work.

>Soenke

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