On 11/06/2011 03:37 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
"Steven Hirsch"<snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote in message GZOdnQQA2ocVTCvTnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@giganews.com">news:GZOdnQQA2ocVTCvTnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@giganews.com...On 11/06/2011 12:25 PM, David Schmidt wrote:On 11/6/2011 12:13 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:All, Can anyone tell me whether the IIc+ smartport firmware is supposed to recognize more than a total of two active devices on the bus? I'm trying to help Cedric figure out why it's not enumerating all the volumes on the spvhd.Steve - It matters what version of ProDOS you are booting from. Some have support for a max of 2 drives, others can see more. What versions are you trying?You are quite correct... I had managed to grab a very old version of ProDOS from my experiments. Just retried with P8 1.3 and it sees all the drives. For some reason I thought this was a function of firmware.Glad that is resolved, because I am planning to get one of these nifty devices to use with my IIc and IIc+ and would be sad if it didn't work on the IIc+.
At this point, the primary issue with IIc+ is that it won't boot the spvhd. Both the IIgs and IIc+ try to access the spvhd a bit before its firmware comes ready, so you generally need an immediate Oa-Ctrl-Reset after powerup. Then, you can do PR#5 and boot from the internal 3.5 diskette. When P8 comes up, as many as three virtual disks will be recognized (assuming you aren't using an ancient ProDOS 8).
I don't consider this any sort of show-stopper and I'm sure Cedric will sort out the firmware.
Steve