Re: AE PC Transporter Questions

[Sam Latella <powergs@macgui.com>]

pitz wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:00:37 AM UTC-8, Tempest wrote:
> 
>> 3. Is it true you have to use special 5.25" drives with the card?  Are
>> those drives impossible to find now?
>> 
> If you want to be able to read MFM-encoded disks (the standard PC disks),
> you would need the special drives.  However, if you have the disk images,
> you can put them as regular files on a ProDOS disk and configure the
> Transporter to "virtualize" the disks from those files.  If your IIgs has
> a
> mass storage device, you can even put a larger hard disk image that the
> Transporter can treat like a standard PC-XT hard disk.
> 
> /pitz
>

Here's an old message from way back...  I had a PC Transporter card and used
it for many years, no longer have one.  It is XT based.  I also, installed a
math co-processor at the time, and did basic wordprocessing, spreadsheet,
programming etc on it.

I do remember having HD 1.44 meg access with a floptical drive, I still have
the floptical drive and use it on the IIgs with a Ramfast card, but not the
PC Transporter card.
_________________________________________
Here's the message from GenieLamp
PC TRANSPORTER AND FLOPTICALS   Sam, I remember you were having trouble 
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   getting your PCT to recognize your 
Floptical.  A question:  Are you using the RamFAST.  If yes, do you allow 
automapping or have you mapped any of the volumes yourself?

     I just discovered that, for some reason, if I map one or more of my 
HD partitions, my Floptical is no longer recognized when I'm in PCT mode.  
In Finder the Floptical is there, in the RF Utilities the Floptical is 
there and mapped where it's always been.  Using File-A-Trix my Floptical 
can be accessed.  But when I go into PCT mode, File-A-Trix no longer sees 
it, it sees RAM3 instead.

     When I unmapped everything (except my first two partitions), all 
worked as before.  I'm not sure why, but I hope this trick works out for 
you.

Wily
                 (P.CREAGER, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:35/M645;1)

>>>>>   IT WORKS!!!!  IT WORKS!!!  The [preceding] message allows a
"""""   Ramfast/PCT and floptical to work properly together....

     Thank-you very much, you just saved me a bundle of $$$$$ this has 
been one of the greates messages posted on Genie  (of course this is my 
opinion :))

     Thanks again...

    Sam Latella [A2World]
"Apple II Forever, IBM Never!!!"

     P.S.  Wily, I forwarded you message to Jawaid (Sequential Systems), 
and DIZ (GS+ Magazines)
                 (S.LATELLA, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:36/M645;1)

<<<<<   Another side note about a floptical aand the PCTransporter (now
"""""   that I've got it working thanks to you  :)...).

     The PCTransporter can read and write to 21meg floptical disks!!!!

     I haven't tried formatting 21meg floptical disks directly from the 
PCTransporter.

     What I did was use Peter Watson's MS-DOS utilities to format a 21meg 
floptical disks.  I then booted up the PCTransporter, and placed the 21meg 
floptical in the floptical drive, and Viola!!!!  The disk showed up in 
drive A: as a 20meg formatted MS DOS disk!!!