Re: AI - applied inginuity drive IIgs help!

[thomas@pathlink.com (thomas)]

thanks Tim you saved me a couple of hours of card swapping (my zipgsx
seems to have only a couple more 'pulls' left in it before the pins
completely give out.

I got my setup finally working as this:

slot 1 empty: tried to put the AI card there but the ribbon cable was
too 'stiff' and kept pushing the card too forward for my comfort level

slot 2: has the AI card - set to 'my card' - disables modem which I
don't care much about at this time

slot 3: my zipgsx card - I've heard folks have been able to put this
in slot 2/etc. but try as I did - I just couldn't make the 'chip
ribbon' cable to reach the second slot and the cpu slot on the
motherboard - it only comfortably reaches the 3rd slot

slot 4: it now has my voc card - this WAS on slot 3 before the mod -
havn't checked to see it works yet or not.

rest of the slots are empty except for the memory card on the 'aux'
slot

appletalk is set to on for slot 1 and 7 (I lose printer - not a big
deal) and with a couple of phonenet thingies I finally connected to my
se/30 - slow but a much improvement over the old floppy method.

now if I can only make my se/30 and my pc to talk to each other over
the serial line (has anyone tried to use I think bassilisk - the mac
emulator - to move files between net->pc->mac->IIgs.

btw - I could not get the IIgs to 'appear' on my se/30 (using the
choose) - only could make se/30's shared drives to appear in the IIgs
- is it not possible to 'share' drives from within IIgs - or is one
only allowed to 'mount' external shared drives inside the GS...but at
least now I can move the files en masse into the GS (btw the AI drive
was a 40 megs). thanks again!

> I was just playing around with this very scenario tonight!  Crazy.  I have a
> Vulcan 20 meg internal drive, and it's interface card was parked in slot 7.
> I just got a hold of some phoneNet connectors, and was hooking up my IIgs to
> a Mac SE/30.  Turning on Appletalk in slot 7 preventing my Vulcan from
> booting (makes sense - one slot can't do Appletalk AND host a hard drive).
> I ended up putting my Vulcan interface in slot 1 (if you put it in slot 7,
> you can't use Appletalk.  If you put it in slot 6, you can't use 5.25"
> drives, if you put in slot 5, you can't use 3.5" drives, slot 4 you can't
> use the mouse, slot 3 you can't use 80 columns, slot 2 you can't use a
> modem, slot 1 you can't use a printer!!) because I rarely use a printer and
> wanted to get my network up.
> 
> Anyway, good luck!
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim