26 Jun
2002
26 Jun
'02
12:35 p.m.
board. Yes, it can handle two drives. In fact, IIRC it
will handle
four drives if your system can handle four drives on a single cable.
The software supplied with it can only handle two drives.
It does NOTHING during normal system operation. But
when you run the
Central Point SW it completely takes over control of the drives and
Well,...
It supplements the existing controller to provide a "flux
transition" level of track read. It still uses the stock controller for
track seeking, etc.
copies (or edits) ANYTHING on the disk that the drive
can physically
ALMOST anything.
these were commonly used anti-disk copying gimmicks.
I never found a
copy protected disk that I couldn't duplicate with the Option card. I
wish I''d keep mine.
On a bet, once, I made a disk from which a usable copy could be made with
DISKCOPY on a stock 5150, but that the option board, with it's software,
could not copy.
Hint: it had problems with DISKCOPY when using Teac drives.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com