18 Apr
1999
18 Apr
'99
4:42 p.m.
Tony wrote:
So, unless the contents of the ROMs are similar to
those on the WD1001
(some chance!), the WD1001 or WD1000 manuals aren't going to be any use.
A fairly good chance, since WD licensed the entire design, including the
firmware, to lots of companies. How much Davong changed it could range
from 0 to 100%, but I doubt that they really had any
motivation to do
much to it. All they really needed to do was to make a PC host
adapter
for it, which was trivial, so it seems unlikely that they would have wanted
to spend a lot of time hacking 8X300 code.
I think you've got it backwards. The WD1001 has
the 8X300 on it (I have
one in the hard disk box for my Model 4). The WD1000 (at least the
WD1000-05) ahas a WD1010-05 chip on it, according to the data book.
The -05 suffix parts were entirely different than the original models.
Both the WD1000 and the WD1001 were originally designed to use the 8X300,
although the 8X305 was sometimes substituted.