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Re: Long VTech Floppy Drive Controller



"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: > Ok, I checked out the ROMs for the UDC cards on your
: > site, and the VTech ROM is identical to mine. I doubt
: > that the Laser version UDC ROM would work as the logic
: > looks very different on that card. I'm thinking that
: > once I have a proper cable set that it will work as it
: > is designed to do. What I like about the UDC is that if
: > there is no disk in the 5.25" drive attached to it, the
: > control is passed on to the next slot. I would be glad
: > to pay someone for properly made cables so that I can
: > use this card, or possibly trade this card for the Laser
: > UDC. Should I bother to burn a Laser version ROM and try
: > it, or would that be a waste of time?
:
: I've used the Laser version of the ROM in the VTech card. As I
: recall it worked a bit better than the original ROM with the
: platinium 3.5" drives
:
: I thought about using the VTech card for the same reasons you
: mentioned but by then I was using an internal hard drive so it
: never tried to boot off a lower slot.

I need to have my SCSI card in slot 5 otherwise the
partitions don't get remapped to slot 2. Do they get
remapped from slot 7 as well?

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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