Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 03:37 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
>> 
>> "Steven Hirsch"<snhirsch@gmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>> 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

I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't keep mapping logical devices until it
runs out of mappable slots. 

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