Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

[Robert Justice <rjustice@internode.on.net>]

On Nov 8, 4:50 pm, Robert Justice <rjust...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> An interesting discussion.
>
> I don't see the apple 3.5' drive as a true smartport device, its just
> a dumb floppy drive disk. To me I can only ever see 2 of these being
> able to be supported externally due to interface constraints. It
> interesting what Steven has noticed that it sort of works with two
> external drives connected to the iic+. The iic+ is a unique case with
> its internal 3.5' drive. I would think that one of the external drives
> would be sort running doubled up with the internal drive. It would be
> interesting to know which of the two does this, i think it would be
> the second external drive connected?
>
> For the intelligent smartport drives like the unidisk 3.5 and Cedric's
> spvhd, I can this being limited by prodos's abilty to map these
> smartport id's to slots and disks, and not the interface.

hmmm, i've had a read of the apple support doc on the supported drive
configurations for the iic+.

Its very clear from this that it only supports 3 external drives of
various configurations. Maybe it is some sort of firmware imposed
limitation for this. seems strange.

Is there a iic+ firmware listing available?