[Coco] who can burn me Drivewire 3 on a Eprom RomPak?

[Frank Pittel]

I have a superIDE so it's never been an issue for me but I like the idea
of replacing the rom in a floppy controller with a drivewire eprom.

The Other Frank

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:16:08AM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> Sorry I must have confused you with someone else, thought the superIDE
> was already ordered.
> 
> There are a few folks on the list who can burn the eprom, and Brian
> offered.  However finding something to stick the eprom in can be more
> of a challenge.  If you have an rs232 pak with socketed rom that is an
> option, since the rom in the rs232 pak is basically worthless, or
> maybe some other controller or rompak that has a socket.  There are
> some folks who object to re-purposing rompaks but I don't really
> understand what that is all about... if you take something you don't
> use and turn it into something you do use, I think it's a win.   Every
> once in a while ebay will have some bare circuit boards for rompaks,
> leftover parts from other coco projects, but that isn't a sure thing.
> 
> Other options are getting the rom loaded without the rompak.. Via
> cassette from a cheap mp3 player or something like that isnt a bad way
> to go.  You will probably be able to locate (or just make) a cassette
> cable easier than finding a way to plug in a rom.  I think you can
> also load the rom via disk if you happen to have a working fdd.  If
> nothing else you could use cocoboot to load the drivewire rom using
> drivewire (strange but true), cocoboot can definitely load from disk.
> 
> good luck
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Laurent Dziubas
> <laurent.dziubas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If not necessary I wont buy a SuperIDE,
> > The Drivewire burned on eprom with serialcable is enough for me...
> >
> > Yes, I tried cocotape with a cassette cable
> > But I don't have 5 pin din to audio jack that works with the Coco3
> >
> >
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