Re: SmartPort adapter for Disk II - how to use?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5n1vu8$of2@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@nortel.ca> wrote:
>>   First, let me correct a general misunderstanding of yours that
>>appears to be most of the problem: Apple 5.25" drives in any form are
>>not official "Smartport" drives.

>Actually, I knew that.  But I also know there is a way to access
>Disk IIs without the controller card.

   Uhhh, news to me. You'll need either the controller card or the
builtin version of that on //c, IIc+ or GS is what I've heard from
the beginning. 

>Ah.  There's the root of my problem.  I have my Apple High Speed
>SCSI card in slot 6.  (I have my InnerDriver controller in slot 7.)
>So to access a 5.25" daisychained off of a 3.5" connected to
>my disk port and showing as s5d1, I'd have to use the control
>panel to switch slot 6 from being my SCSI to "disk port"?

   5.25" drives connected to the disk port in the back of the GS will
show up in S6D1 or D2 if slot 6 is set to "disk port". There's no easy
way to move the 5.25" drives down to slot 5 unless you were to drop in
a 5.25" controller card in slot 5 and set slot 5 to "your card", thus
losing all your smartport drives.

>If I do that, and set "boot slot" to 6, could I then boot a
>DOS 3.3 diskette?

   You certainly should be able to. [Assuming drives and disks are in
good condition, you're not overloading your GS's power supply with too
much stuff, cables are intact, the disk will work on a GS, yadda yadda
yah]

Nathan "Mr. Pedantic" Mates

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