Re: software for //e workstation card

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

> In article dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...
> >- The "PC Transporter" [snip]
> 
>     Speaking of that option, is there a way to use it so only the
> Apple 3.5 drive connected to the PC Transporter is seen by GS/OS?
> I have an AMR 800K drive and TransDrive 5.25 connected to mine,
> but as soon as I go into the Finder it continiously starts polling
> the MFM 5.25 drive (to the point the system is not usable).

Yes.  Use the PCT.DISKS utility (I can't recall its exact name), which
updates the enabled drive list in the patched copy of PRODOS.  You can
selectively enable/disable every volume attached to the PC Transporter,
so that only the enabled volumes will appear when booting from that copy
of ProDOS.  (I'm not sure if this is updated when you boot from that
disk, or when the firmware is downloaded to the card, which happens on
the first boot after powerup.)

> I also was unsuccesful at patching the ProDOS boot stub used by GS/OS,
> and so had to load the firmware into memory by booting the PCT
> startup disk and _then_ the GS/OS System Disk.

I can't think why you might have had a problem with this - it worked
fine for me.  Obviously you have to patch the PRODOS file in the root
directory, not anything in the system folder.

>     I have also had trouble getting it to "see" the 768K Slinky
> RAM Disk option it is supposed to emulate. Sometimes that appears
> on the desktop, sometimes it does not.

Do you have the GS/OS "A2.RAMCARD" driver installed?  If so, remove it.
It seems to have a problem with the PC Transporter, causing weird
problems like thinking there are two copies of it's RAM disk online.

The RAMAEPC disk will only be available if you have downloaded the
firmware to the PC Transporter (via a patched copy of PRODOS), and also
only if that volume is actually enabled (as above).

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David Empson
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