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- Path: cc.usu.edu!justinh
- From: justinh@cc.usu.edu (JUSTIN HILEMAN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Can I daisy chain 2 64's?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan5.111252.70567@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 96 11:12:52 MDT
- References: <1996Jan3.174550.70429@cc.usu.edu> <4chue1$mu4@globe.indirect.com>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <4chue1$mu4@globe.indirect.com>, gonzo@indirect.com (Robert J. Gonzalez) writes:
- > JUSTIN HILEMAN (justinh@cc.usu.edu) wrote:
- > : I have 2 64's, 3 drives, a printer, and a 512k reu.
- > : I'd like to daisy chain them all together with the
- > : extra 64 on the end with the reu installed. Is there
- > : a program that could make the 64 (and reu) into a ram
- > : drive? If not, would someone be willing to help me
- > : with problems that will arise as I attempt to write it?
- > : -thanx
- > : Juz
- >
- >
- > Nope, can't do that. The 64 is designed to control the serial Buss, all
- > the other devices are designed to be "slaves"
- >
- > It would be like having 2 drives with the same device number, you know
- > how well that works.
- >
- > The 64 doesn't have a device number, all other devices recieve all
- > commands, but only the "addressed" device acts on it.
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- There's no way then to rewrite the I/O routines in the
- kernal to make it a slave device? This would probably
- take a major feat of assembly prowess (which I don't
- really have). This is not possible?
- -Juz
- ps. thanx for the comments
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