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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple 2 SuperDrive Controller card problems.
- Message-ID: <76490@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:42:31 GMT
- References: <platkus.726649352@roby.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <platkus.726649352@roby.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes:
- >[...]
- >Secondly, and most important, I installed the card in slot 5 as recomended by
- >the owner's guide. I of course switched the control panel setting for slot
- >5 to "your card". I have a high density SuperDrive as the first drive to the
- >card, and an older apple 3.5" 800k drive daisy chained to the SuperDrive.
- >The problem is that now my ramdisk no longer remaps to slot 2 drive 1 with
- >the new controller card, and thus it is inaccessible.
- >
- >What do I need to do to get the ramdisk back[? ...]
-
- This is an unfortunate fact of life--RAM5 shows up only when slot 5 is
- set to Smart Port. If you had a slot free, you could put the SuperDrive
- card in another slot and leave slot 5 set to Smart Port.
-
- If there were a RAM-based GS/OS driver for RAM5, it could make RAM5 show
- up even when slot 5 is set to Your Card. It -might- even be able to make
- RAM5 show up under ProDOS 8, but that's much harder! (I can't, of course,
- speculate about when (or whether) you might see such a driver from Apple.)
- --
- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
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- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
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