Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: MacII => MacIIfx Keywords: FDHD, SWIM, Upgrade Message-ID: <5471@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 29 May 91 17:01:28 GMT References: <1534@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1462@radius.com> <1991May29.162300.4159@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 27 In article <1991May29.162300.4159@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski) writes: }In article <1462@radius.com> bob@radius.com (bob lashley) writes: }+Don't forget the SWIM chip. I think this still comes with the drive upgrade, }+as does a set of probably useless ROMs to permit using it. (SWIM is the disk }+controller chip) } }From earlier posts, I had gathered that the HDFD SWIM chip was included as }part of the motherboard upgrade. What you would need, then, instead of the }drive "upgrade" would be just a raw HDFD drive (no SWIM chip, no ROMs). } That's true, the IIfx motherboard requires NO mods to use the FDHD drives. However, I think that to buy the FDHD's, you buy the FDHD Kit, which includes the drive and the (worthless for a IIfx) ROMs and SWIM chip. Or maybe it's the other way around that if you want just the ROMs and SWIM chip, you have to buy the drive too... -- =========================================================================== #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.4 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as a man and then compare the relative brain size, we know find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it WAS!"