Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

["ict@ccess" <gids.rs@sasktel.net>]

On Nov 6, 3:29 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 03:37 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
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> > "Steven Hirsch"<snhir...@gmail.com>  wrote in messageGZOdnQQA2ocVTCvTnZ2dnUVZ_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,
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>> Steve -
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> >>> 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?
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> >> 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.
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> > 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+.
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> 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).
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> I don't consider this any sort of show-stopper and I'm sure Cedric will sort
> out the firmware.
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> Steve


If I am not mistaken, on my IIc+, the internal 3.5 shows up as slot 5
drive 1 but my external 3.5 shows up as slot 7, drive 1.

It does not get mapped to slot 2 like smart port is supposed to work.

Rob