22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
12:20 p.m.
Rumor has it that Dave Dunfield may have mentioned these words:
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You assumed wrong, my friend. ;-) The 2 in 1542 means "with floppy" - I
wonder if the F means "Fast" as in Fast SCSI - 10M/sec instead of the
standard 5M/sec bus speed.
Every Adaptec controller I'd seen up to the 29xx series used the last digit
for floppy controller - 2 for floppy, 0 without, I don't know if there were
others... For some reason, I thought there was a '4' ending as well, but I
don't know what that could've stood for.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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This may or
may not help, but I have used a 1542c with imagedisk to create
mixed density floppies. Others have then used these to successfully create
new images.
Interesting - I have a 1542 which does not work with ImageDisk or
TeleDisk/TESTSD
at single-density - the user reporting the problems also has a 1542 which
does not
work with any of the three programs ... Mine is a '1542CF' - I assumed the
'F' ment
"with floppy" ... Is this the same as yours?