Re: CopyIIPC Deluxe Option Board

["Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>]

I used to own this very card in the late 80's/early 90's.

1) Linux drivers? I don't think so... Mosts Linux-heads probably don't even
remember this card, nor even know of its existence. And I really don't
remember the software being Windows-based. The software I used was for
MS-DOS/PC-DOS only.

2) The card sat between your floppy disk drives and the floppy disk
controller. It worked fine with the 5.25" PC disk drive, however that's for
the sole purpose of duplicating copy-protected PC software. The 3.5"
requirement was for copying Macintosh 800k diskettes file-by-file, or by
bit-copy (much like Copy II for the Mac). This capability was only available
if you ran the DOS-based utility. And, NO, it didn't read ProDOS diskettes!

3) A what????

BTW, comp.sys.apple2 is for Apple II enthusiests. These questions should be
for the PC-based or Linux-based newsgroups.

--- Bryan


"John Oyler" <john.oyler@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> Guys,
> Most of my google searches are coming up with off the wall results.
> Either that, or using the thing for copying copy-protected disks. So I
> have a few questions, if anyone can answer them.
>
> #1 Any Linux drivers for this? I've not booted into windows in nearly 5
> months, I'd like to keep it that way.
>
> #2 Can this thing only use 3.5" drives? I'd also like to do 5.25" disks,
> if possible.
>
> #3 Is there a PCI catweasel board yet? I'm planning on upgrading my
> server in a few months, and I want it to be pci-only, and I don't want
> to keep the old one around.
>
> Thanks,
> John