Re: Can the "Liron card" run a HD? (was: Re: What kind of ][e card is this?

[david@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>I assume the Liron card has an IWM (I've only ever seen one briefly),
>so it should have almost all the hardware needed to support an Apple
>3.5 Drive.  It would need its own microprocessor or buffering
>hardware, plus outputs to control the head select and 3.5" drive
>enable lines.
>This is basically what you have with the SuperDrive card.

Except that the SuperDrive card would use a SWIM chip rather than the IWM.

All this talk about the IWM has raised a couple of questions:

1)	Did Apple every fully document this chip and what it can do?
	I have looked in the //c Tech Ref Manual (2nd edition) and
	the Inside Macintosh (Vol 1 or 2) and got a little info but
	not much.

2)	Did Apple ever sell them to 3rd party manufacturers? What does
	the Chinook //c HD use to talk to the Smartport bus?