Re: Info about Apple Widget drives

["Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net>]

Nice work, actually it is not off topic because I have a profile drive (5meg) for my IIplus. Sorry I can't help you with any
information on the drives, it seems that detailed drive information is hard to find for the profile.

I tried your link on the detailed info on the project but can't access the link, can you check into that?

Good job and good luck with the larger partitions.

Vince

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"Patrick Schaefer" <PSchaefer@epost.de> wrote in message 40EFE118.3A97B65C@epost.de">news:40EFE118.3A97B65C@epost.de...
> Because working Widget and ProFile drives are nearly unaffordable today
> (at least in Europe), I have designed and built a ProFile emulator. For
> those who are interested, here is some info:
>
> http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
>
> The web page is far from finished, but it should give a first impression
> of the system.
>
> IDEfile uses a regular IDE drive and a converter board (a 8031
> microcontroller with DMA logic) to emulate up to seven "ProFile"
> volumes. Up to now, emulation  of the 5MB and 10MB ProFile drives works
> fine. Both Apple /// and Lisa accept the drive and boot from it. So my
> main goal, to get a drive I can use to play with Lisa software, has been
> achieved. However, to complete the thing, I would like to add support
> for 10 and 20MB Widget partitions.
>
>
> If anybody has a description of the Widget, its command set and
> firmware, or some information about (or tools for) servo alignment and
> low level formatting, please let me know.
>
>
> I know this is somewhat off-topic, but perhaps anybody out there can
> help me?
>
> TIA
> Patrick