Re: Best setup for Mac //e card

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <7p330r$63j$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>, alexm@leng.zip.com.au wrote:

> Thanks for that - I'll try out 2.2.1. As for memory, I'm thinking of
> splashing out and getting those two sticks of 4MB 30-pin RAM I need to take
> my LCII up to the physical 10MB limit...
Heh, I remember when 10mb was...like, decadent for an LC...
I can't figure out why everyone always goes for that 2.2.2d version, it's
buggy as hell...Is it referenced in a FAQ or something, or do people just
always head for the newest version? Last I checked Apple's site they went
out of their way to point out that one shouldn't download the d version
unless you fit the specific need of it, and it is unsupported and mostly
untested...

> Yeah, I've been investigating the ProDOS hard-drive problems over the past
> few days. Since I last ran the IIe card, I've also upgraded to 7.5.5. You're
> right about the 'ProDOS File System' extension - PC Exchange works just fine
> although it assigns a floppy disk icon to the ProDOS hard-drive :-)
Yeah, I hate that too. I liked the old HD with the II logo over it much better.

> I'm using one of those original Apple 40MB Quantum drives with a 32MB
> ProDOS partition - but both PC Exchange and PFS refuse to automatically mount
> the ProDOS partition on the desktop unless I partition the remaining 8MB as a
> Mac partition. Then it automatically mounts both. That's just a little
annoying
> as I don't need the 8MB partition and it clutters up the desktop (due to
> the limitations of the LCII case, I've converted an old PC desktop
> case into an external SCSI box which contains four to six additional SCSI
Well, if you use something like SilverLining or HDT (if HDT still supports
PD partitions) you probably won't have that problem, just make the rest
'Free Space'...however for me, the extra little 8mb partition was useful
because I copied over the Launcher app and it's files and such, and I
think there were instances where I wanted to mess with something like a
disk image or such, so I placed it on the HFS partition to monkey with it
with greater ease...

> devices, including the ProDOS drive). Other than that I've found that booting
> with few or no Extensions does solve the problem I was having with the
IIe Card
> - now it's just a matter of identifying the conflicting extension and dealing
> with it...
Well, glad I helped in some way...good luck with it.