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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS 5.0 [sic] (really System 5.0)
Message-ID: <33246@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 89 23:43:56 GMT
References: <8907140736.AA09765@crash.cts.com> <WOMBAT.89Jul15181038@claris.com> <33203@apple.Apple.COM> <WOMBAT.89Jul17123829@claris.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <WOMBAT.89Jul17123829@claris.com> wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>Maybe I'm mis-informed, but I was under the impression that a Sider card
>acted like a DiskII card as far as the machine was concerned.  But Siders
>are *not* SCSI devices.

I think they're "SASI" (I don't remember what that stands for) devices inside,
but that doesn't matter to ProDOS.  They're just ProDOS block devices; GS/OS
can generate drivers for Sider devices with no problems.  They definitely don't
look like Disk IIs.

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