Re: How should I use my 5.25" in GS?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5g0spd$2v8@nntp.hut.fi>, Paul Dunkel <pdunkel@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>In article <5g0kki$1j5$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>>... It covers
>>slot assignments and notes the fact that for most i/o intensive
>>devices, you can only use either the builtin port or the card. This
>>is very much true for 5.25" disks.

>I read it (the faq), but I guess I didn't understand it.
>What means this _only_ use the builtinin port or the card. Do you mean
>some specific card or what?

   Each slot can control _one_ item from the two selections: the builtin
port and 'your card'. You can only have one of those two active at once,
not both. The control panel should make that pretty clear-- you only
have two selections: 'builtin port' or 'your card', not 'both' or any
other selections. [As noted in the FAQ, some specific exceptions exist
for cards that don't need to be 'your card'ed, but those are pretty much
only accelerator and video boards]

>>If you want to use 5.25" drives
>>off both the builtin port and a slot-based card, you'll have to move
>>the card to another slot and set it to 'your card'.

>Do you mean that my card and drives will work in some other slot?

   If you move your 5.25" controller card to another slot, set that
slot to 'your card', and can live without whatever builtin port you
just disabled, it should work fine. However, you've noted a lot of
very strange problems with your GS, from flakey memory and such. Thus,
I'm not making any 100% guarantees for behavior on your system, just
giving how it should work.

Nathan Mates

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