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Re: Question:The internal 3 1/2 drive on the //c+

Lockar wrote:

     I think I've asked this before.  What is different with either the
disk coltroler or physical 3 1/2 drive on a Apple //c+ that would not
let you to do bit copy. 
      I remember when I got the //c+ (my second comouter when I was
young) that you can't use the bit copy of CopyIIplus unless you used an
external drive. 
      Why is this?


Because the Unidisk 3.5 has an onboard processor that actually controls
the drive.  It only passes data to/from the "Liron" controller.

Therefore, the "real" RWTS is not accessible (without changing the
firmware of the drive).

-michael

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