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Genie & Lamp Feb97 6/20
Hello News!
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for
the occasional transfer, it's not conducive to making even a single
backup. Backups to a 3.5" disk are not imposssible, but I have to
physically move \
the
SCSI controller temporarily to slot 5 first. I want to avoid having to
\
move the
controller back and forth. Up until now, I've done that at the expense
of making any backups.
What's frustrating is that when I use a program like Copy-II-Plus, the
3.5" drive activity light comes on for a moment as all the drives are
polled, \
it just
never shows up in the list of drives to be accessed until I switch slot
7 \
"off"
-- but then I can't access the HD.
After reading Sully's explanation of what needs to happen, I fear that
\
remapping
the slot won't provide a solution since that will probably remap the \
external
drive port to slot 5 as well. :-(
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/ \
)=====(
\___+_/
..:... Hans
(H.HAUMANN, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:11/M645;1)
>>>>> Hans,
"""""
I had a similar situation with a Laser awhile ago. The best solution \
ended up
being backing up to another device on the SCSI chain; I realize that \
might not
be suitable for you, but it was the best I could come up with.
Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
(A2LAMP, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:12/M645;1)
<<<<< Much as I hate to, I may just abandon the expansion box and
mount """"" the SCSI controller in the open from the side of the
machine. At \
least
that way I won't need to physically move the controller to change slots
-- \
I'll
just need to flip switches.
I tried to see if I could just add a jumper or two to make one of the \
slots in
the expansion module act the same as the slot in the side of the
machine, \
but I
didn't see any obvious way to do it.
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/ \
)=====(
\___+_/
..:... Hans
(H.HAUMANN, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:14/M645;1)
>>>>> Hans,
"""""
You have an interesting situation there. I'm not sure why CopyII+
doesn't \
see
your drive. I'm with Ryan, tho- The easiest way would be to connect
another scsi device for backups. A Zip drive would be my
recommendation.
-Sully
(R.SULLIVAN8, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:18/M645;1)
<<<<< Sully, A Zip drive on a IIe (or clone)? You mean I can just
unplug """"" my ZIP from my Performa and move it over to my Laser?
Can I just \
use an
AHS utility or ProSel-8 to format a ZIP disk?
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/ \
)=====(
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..:... Hans
(H.HAUMANN, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:20/M645;1)
>>>>> Sure, why not? I had a Zip Drive running on one of my //es :)
"""""
> You mean I can just unplug my ZIP from my Performa and move it over to my
> Laser?
Provided you have a properly working existing SCSI chain and follow the
usual SCSI rules, sure. One caveat: watch out for the limit of 14
Prodos devices.
> Can I just use an AHS utility or ProSel-8 to format a ZIP disk?
Yeah. . . use Chinook SCSI utils. That'll work fine. If not, use the
AHS SCSI utils. That'll work too, but Chinook's better.
Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
(A2LAMP, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:22/M645;1)
RAMFAST, PRODOS 8, AND FLOPTICALS Is there any way to set up a
RamFAST """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Rev.D with the latest ROMs
so that P8 programs such as AppleWorks will be able to use a Floptical
drive?
I have tried to figure out the slot mapping, but my RamFAST manual has
\
taken a
walk, and as I recall it wasn't very helpful. If I don't map slots, and
\
try to
launch AppleWorks, I get a text error panel that says to insert
/HD.PGM/, \
which
is the name of the hard disk partition that has my copy of AW 5.1 on it.
\
If I
map slots, AW doesn't recognize the Floptical drive.
Ideas?
Don V. Zahniser
Delivered by CoPilot for ANSITerm
(D.ZAHNISER, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:154/M645;1)
>>>>> I don't have (8-bit) AppleWorks, but I do have a Floptical and the
""""" same RF as you. Here are a few tips that might help:
* Cold Boot with a disk in the Floptical drive. RF acts a lot better
when it knows about the Floptical from the start.
* Once you're booted up, go into the RF Utilities and make sure your
Floptical disk is recognized, and that it's marked as ACTIVE. At
this time you can also note your SCSI IDs.
I believe the problem is the manual mapping. I wrestled with this
problem \
while
trying to get my PCT to work w/the Floptical. ProDOS seems to re-map \
volumes
upon entry to P8. What I noticed is that ProDOS replaced my Floptical
with /RAM3. (Using a CDA such as File-a-Trix is handy for listing what
volumes \
are
considered on-line when you're in P8)
The only solution is to arrange your SCSI IDs in such a way that the all
\
of the
volumes (Floptical, HD partitions, etc.) that you NEED to appear in P8
do so with auto-mapping and don't exceed P8's 12 volume limit. This
eliminates \
the
need for manual mapping. How much changing you have to do depends on
your setup. :/
I set my Floptical ID between my boot drive and my 2nd (bigger) drive.
Since there are 3 partitions on my boot drive, the Floptical appears as
the 4th \
volume
and shows up in P8 just fine.
_/\_/\__
/ o o\___
// \________/
// \ Wily
(P.CREAGER, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:160/M645;1)
<<<<< Wily (and anyone else with a RamFAST)
"""""
Playing around with Wily's recommendations, I stumbled upon the
following procedure for getting RamFAST to automagically recognize any
disk in the Floptical drive under P8. It has interesting implications
for users of \
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