6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
8:45 a.m.
2) Opinions of the board would be much appreciated,
particularly in the
context of what it *can't* do, how easy it is to code for, how easy it
is to get hold of others' code to handle a particular format (rather
than reinventing the wheel), how well the board copes with media errors
etc.
I bought the Zorro 2 version of the board for my Amiga years ago,
based in part on the fact that they advertised all these different
formats it could read. What they failed to mention was that drivers
only really existed for Commodore 64 disks (you could also read PC
and Mac disks). I was seriously ticked off.
I think with the PCI model, especially in a Linux box, you might have
better luck. I've actually considered buying a PCI version in spite
of my bad experience with the Zorro 2 model.
Zane
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