Re: S6 or S5,d1-??

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote:
> Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
>>It'd be fairly easy to build a SmartPort card that allowed more than 4
>>devices. What I'd like is revised firmware for the Unidisk 3.5" controller
>>(aka Liron, or SmartPort) card so that it would support 5.25" disks as
>>well, kinda like the //c does it, except not using any of slot 5's IO space
>>so I could re-use that slot for another card. I'm pretty sure this could be
>>done, but you wouldn't be able to boot the machine off the 3.5" drive which
>>kinda sucks.

> That sounds just like my UDC. Mixture of 5.25 & 3.5 drives on the one controller
> and able to boot off either 3.5 or 5.25 (but not Pascal 5.25 disks as the
> boot blocks are wrong - the UDC makes the 5.25 drives Smartport/ProDOS block
> devices).

Hmm, maybe it can be done then, I guess ProDOS would be smart enough to
sort it out. Provided DOS 3.3 compatability was retained I'd be pretty
happy with this setup.

> How much space is left in the Liron firmware?

I'm not really sure - I'd imagine there'd be a little bit spare, I'll
check it out sometime.

Cheers,

Matt

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