jeffm@mmintl.UUCP (Jeffrey Miller) (03/19/88)
After posting my message about hanging a 1.44 Mb 3.5" drive off of my 6300, I got several calls on the subject. One was from the drive vendor themselves (Shamrock). In my article I mentioned that one of the pins of the floppy controller PAL had to be lifted. There seems to be some rumour going around that early 6300 motherboards had discrete logic instead of a PAL for this part of the circuitry. Is anyone aware of this? I got my 6300 in the middle of 1985 with Rev 1.1 ROMs and I forget which mboard revision, and there is a PAL on it. Does anyone know of any earlier boards without a PAL for much of the floppy circuitry? (If you have info please post it so others who have asked the question can read it). Thanks, Jeff -- * Jeff Miller: Ashton-Tate 52 Oakland Ave., E. Hartford, CT 06108-9911 * * (203) 522-2116 x257 UUCP: ...!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!pwa-b!mmintl!jeffm * * or ...!ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!jeffm *