7 Oct
2001
7 Oct
'01
4:48 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
I had a gate-array Model 4 that I installed two DSQD drives in without
any other modification (other than replacing the floppy cable that used
missing connectors for drive select).
Interesting! I was not aware of that. Rather like the Kaypro 2/84,
though you needed the DS specific utilities. Was this same upgrade
available for the non-gate-array machine?
- don
The only Model 1/III/4 that came stock with DS drives
was the 4D. Any other
DS setup was third-party. The stock III/4 controllers (both the add-on in
the III and early 4 and the built-in on the gate-array 4) had no problems
with DS drives.
Does that imply that merely substituting DS drives would make a 4 DS
capable, or were there some other modifications necessary? --
Eric Dittman
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