SD Card disk drive for C-64?

Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com
Sat Jan 23 18:33:21 CST 2016


On 1/23/2016 6:28 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016, Jim Brain wrote:
>> On 1/23/2016 2:18 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
>>> First off, my bad - I thought the OP was wanting to change the device ID
>>> (which is not the drive number, btw**) on a genuine 1541. I'd have no idea
>>> how it's done with one of the SD-based drive emulators.
>> Google is still a friend:
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=sd2iec+change+device+numbers&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>>
>> There are no external switches on some of these drives.
>>
>> But, the BASIC commands used to switch device numbers on the 1541 also work
>> on these units, and putting an extra char at the end of the command will
>> make the changes permanent, as I recall.
>>
>> Jim
> Jim, don't you sell a device that's useful for temporarily switching off
> specific drives so the device numbers can be changed more easily?
>
QuadPortIEC, but you can also just switch the ATN line on the cable.  
Disabling the ATN (Attention) line means the drive will not respond to 
any commands.

Jim


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