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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
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Subject: Re: Reply to Big Board II
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Date: 6 Dec 90 00:05:03 GMT
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fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay) writes:
>
>  well, what i meant was could i connect my 8 inch drives to an existing
>AT HD controller and get the thing to work with uniform??  the reason
>why is because compaticards aren't exactly cheap, and i'd like to
>avoid that step if possible.  i can make a proper cable, but i need to
>know if uniform understands such a setup.
>
What I meant to imply is that the CompatiCard is essentially a 4-drive AT FDC.
Therefore, it should be possible to connect to a regular AT FDC.  Try it, all
it should cost you would be the effort to make the cable.  As to UniForm
understanding it as an 8", I doubt it.  But it should write to it in 1.2
format.  Look into the capabilities of Driver.sys, though.

                                                - don
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