Any experience with a DTC-1181?

[Michael B. Brutman]

Dave Dunfield wrote:
>>Anyone had experience with a Data Technologies DTC-1181?  It appears to be an 
>>8-bit ISA board that somehow enhances the on-board BIOS to handle drives larger 
>>than 528MB through LBA.  Does it work?  If so, does it then go up to the 
>>typical 8192MB barrier or does it go farther than that?
> 
> 
> I have the docs for it kicking around here somewhere (single-page, I could scan it for you
> if you like - assuming I can find it). IIRC it will go up to the 30G barrier (but I could be
> wrong - it's been quite a while since I used it).
> 
> Btw, the board is just a ROM socket - I used to put the ROM itself (which IIRC is 8K) into
> the boot rom socket of my network cards on various 486 class machines - if you are not
> using network boot, it saves a card slot.
> 
> And yes, it does work.
> 
> Dave
> 
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Wow - if it's just a ROM socket, that makes it a really implementation 
of the PCjr cartridge slot!  I knew us PCjr owners would be vindicated 
one day!