Re: Apple IIe Card for Mac LC II

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On 2007-05-04, Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote:
>
> > In article <i7-dnfelCKRSXqbbnZ2dnUVZ_uCinZ2d@comcast.com>,
> > Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Scott, given that the price for small, used SCSI drives (Apple firmware)
> > > is about $10 a dozen, why not just replace it?
> >
> > That's a possibility (and I should have some not-currently-in-use drives on
> > hand already), but the flash option would be more "interesting." :-)
>
>
> Is there any way to use a newer SCSI drive?
>
> It would be nice if someone came up with a board that let you use a
> newer SCSI drive, and "bank switched" areas of the drive in as 32MB
> Apple drives.
>
> Even the flash drive card for Apple II wastes most of the space on
> modern flash media.

It's just an issue of providing a "selector" to choose which
partitions to mount.  I think the RAMfast has some capability
like that.

-michael

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