Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!pro-novapple.UUCP!bhoar From: bhoar@pro-novapple.UUCP (Brendan Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Unidisk 3.5/Apple 3.5 Message-ID: <8712100517.AA04037@crash.cts.com> Date: 8 Dec 87 21:55:12 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-sol!pro-charlotte!pro-connection!pro-novapple!bhoar@nosc.MIL Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 I know that the Unidisk 3.5 contains the same innards as an Apple 3.5, plus a "smart" board that allows it to run with a simplified card on the //e and with the new ROM on the //c. Shouldn't there be a way (ie, recabling) to make the Unidisk 3.5 act like an Apple 3.5 and gain direct access capabilities from the GS so that programs like Diversi-Cache will work? The connector from the "smart" board to the controller is the same as from the external cable to the "smart" board. (BTW, I've tried bypassing the smart board by removing the cable connection to the smart board and reconnecting it directly to the controller...no luck...powers on fine, but isn't recognized...maybe a few connections have to be switched). Oh, "smart" board refers to the one INSIDE the Unidisk 3.5, not the LIRON that inhabits Apple //es and GSs whose users want the UNI 3.5 to inhabit the slot of their choice... Hope this gets to the network...two of my previous messages just disappeared... PROLINE: pro-connection!pro-novapple!bhoar UUCP: {ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pro-connection!pro-novapple!bhoar ARPA: crash!pro-connection!pro-novapple!bhoar INET: pro-novapple!bhoar@pro-connection.cts.com *affix addage here* *affix addage here*