Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!matt
From: matt@zswamp.fidonet.org (Matthew Desmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: SwiftLink 232 + other carts
Message-ID: <6959.27D86CC0@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 20:38:44 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

treesh@vangogh.helios.nd.edu wrote:

 >I have get reciently pruchased the SwiftLink232 cartridge 
 >with cable.  I have 
 >not yet installed it into my system because I have a few 
 >questions about it
 >frist, primarly, can I use it in conjunction with other 
 >cardridge devices at the same time?

   Yes, as long as you have some device - a cartridge motherboard - that will 
permit you to plug in more than one at a time.  Some conflicts may arise, but 
the REU (which you mentioned specifically) coexists fine with the SwiftLink.

 >The way I plan to do this is to
 >take a 44 pin ribbon cable (4 inches in lenght) and snap on 
 >two 44 pin
 >edge connectors onto it, and fit the REU and the Swithlink 
 >cartridges onto the cable at the same time.

   I did the same... it worked for me.

 >I presume that the Swithlink is switchable I/O
 >page mapping so as not to cause conflicts witht the REU.

   Default settings should work fine.

 >Can anyone tell me if the REU is switchable, or does it even 
 >take up I/O page space at all?

   There is a jumper inside the SwiftLink to change its location from $DE00 to 
$DF00, but that's the default location of the REU (which can also be moved 
with a little hacking, but it's rather messy)
 

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