Re: Turbo IDE Card description

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

In article <la46828@pro-cajun.cts.com> sysadm@pro-cajun.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>Nice specs, why is it important to specify which machine (//e or //gs) when
>you order the card.  I own both and would hope that the card is
>interchangeable between machines like the Apple Rev C., DMA SCSI cards are.

The ROM on the card is highly optimized for maximum throughput, using 65816
commands in the GS version. You can order both ROMs (if I recall correctly,
a ROM costs $10), so if you want to swap machines (which you don't do every
day normally, anyway ;), you just exchange the ROM and that's it.

So far users did not complain about this, and it surely gives some extra speed
under P8 on the GS.

Soenke