Re: 2 more stupid questions:

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

me2@nowhere.org (Bart) wrote:

>First is on an Apple // Clone: Laser 128:  on the bottom are 2 switches (3 in 
>PAL countries) the 2 on the right say External Slot 5 (and Slot 7) Enable up, 
>disable down.  Up on both seems to enable the external slot on the side, 
>down ON BOTH disables it turns on the floppy port int he back.  there seems to

>be NO WAY to turn on 1 the externa; and 2 the floppy port AT THE SAME TIME.  
>unless someone else knows a way.  I have tried every combo w/o success.

Slot 7 is the floppy port (when 3.5 drives are used), so leave
the right switch in the enable position and push the middle
switch into the down and disabled position.  That'll let you
keep the 3.5 drive and have the external port too.

>Second question:   /RAM Disconnected on slot3 drive 2 on all my //es //c  and 
>/lasers: is this cuz I ain't no gots the extra memory to turn it on?

No, it means Copy II+ is using the second 64k of the
computer as memory (for full 128k usage) rather than just
letting it sit there as a RAM disk (/RAM).  You can't have
it both ways.  Either a program disconnects /RAM and
uses the memory as program memory OR it leaves
/RAM intact and lets you use it as a pseudo disk.  In
Copy II+'s case, it disconnects /RAM and uses the
memory itself.

>related: (well so its a 3rd question):
>If I have a Foucs in and a 2nd floppy controller, does the used slot 5 d1 d2 
>use up 2 Focus partitons and make them unusable?

No it does not.  Unless you have many Focus partitions.
You start out with 14 partitions, 2 per slot, under
ProDOS.  /RAM will take away one.  Adding a floppy
controller takes away two, so you should still have
enough room for 11.  If you add another controller, that'll
take away two more, but unless you have more than
9 partitions on your Focus, you won't notice anything
missing.