need drivers/manual for M-Systems PC-FD card

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 17:41:36 2004

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: need drivers/manual for M-Systems PC-FD card


> I found a box full of these today. They appear to be disk drive
> emulators using Flash memory. M-systems is still in business but they say
> that these reached end of life in 1999 and don't have any software or
> manuals for them. Does anyone remember how to program and use these?
> They're half length 8-bit ISA cards.
>
> Joe
>

What model do you have?

I dug up my Industrial Computer Source Catalog from 1999 (Edition 1) and on
page 59 they have the PCFD family of FLASH disks.

PCFD 1V to PCFD 32V ( 1,2,3,8,16,32 mb FLASH disk, ISA Bus Card half
length). They also came in PC/104 versions.

It states there are no drivers required.

"The "disk" becomes immediately available as either drive D: if you already
have a fixed disk, or drive C: if it is the only "fixed disk" in the system.
It can work in conjunction with floppy disk drives. Up to four boards can be
installed in a system providing up to 128MB of FLASH DISK drive"

Features:

Up to 128MB FLASH Drive Capacity
ISA and PC/104 Models
Fill Read/Write Capabilities
No Drivers Required
Bootable Flash File System
MS-DOS, DR-DOS and Windows Compatible


Hope this is of help, I think I had full M-Systems catalogs back in the
1990's but probably left them at my old employer back in 1999.
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