Re: 3.5" inch floppy drives on a //e?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <kiR1Xc1w165w@tlp.apana.org.au>,
Peter Maloney <peterm@tlp.apana.org.au> wrote:
> David Empson sez...
> >>       One other option is the Universal Disk Controller (UDC) by
> >> Laser. It works with Laser's own 3.5 drives, and quite possibly the
> >> UniDisk 3.5.
> > 
> > I've had conflicting reports on this, but the more reliable sources
> > say it doesn't work with the UniDisk 3.5.  I've never seen a working
> > one, so I haven't been able to try it myself."
> 
> According to the box mine came in it does... But there were two versions. 

[snip]

Right.  In that case, I'm pretty sure it is the newer one that doesn't
support the UniDisk 3.5.  Someone tried it and found it didn't work.
I can't remember who it was, though.

> The later card is much smaller than the earlier one; it contains much 
> denser technology. 

I've seen one of these (broken, so I couldn't try it out).  It has a
single ASIC as a disk controller, plus a ROM, and possibly a few glue
logic chips.  (Not in front of me, so I can't check.)

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