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Re: EquiDisk+

On 19 Feb 1998 05:39:46 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>Does anyone have experience with an EquiDisk+?  I picked one up for
>a few dollars.  It looks like a DuoDisk, but the two 5.25" drives are half
>height.  It has a proprietary controller card.  The drives show up under
>ProDOS as 800K drives!  There are three outlets in the back of the case
>for the monitor and computer to plug into.  Standard double-density
>disks format in the drives, but high density disks don't format at all.

Format to what capacity?  The Lisa's twiggy disks formatted to some
bigaz capacity like 880K or something, didn't they?  Your proprietary
controller may be seeing them as 800K drives because, like the dumbaz
slot ID'ing program I made, it only checks the card's ID byte, and not
the pertinent SmartPort info.  This could cause all SmartPort devices
(could include hard drives, floppies, and other disk devices) to be
identified as 800K 3.5" drives.
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