Re: Help with connecting Duodisk to IIgs

[dmasters@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dan Masterson)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
: In article <51fm22$ahr@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
: >In article <vcam-1409961827400001@ts34-4.wla.ts.ucla.edu>,
: >Vinh Cam <vcam@ucla.edu> wrote:
: >>I have a ROM 03 Apple IIgs with 2MB memory and a RAMFAST SCSI Rev. C card
: >>in slot 7.  I've tried to daisy chain an Apple Duodisk to it but so far,
: >>it won't work.
: >
: >   Could you be a little more precise about "it won't work"? Does the
: >system never see the drive? Does the finder list the drive, but never
: >see any contents in it? 
: >
: >   What I'd recommend checking first is if Slot 6 is set to "Your Card"
: >in the Control panel (ctrl-open-apple-escape to start). If it is, the
: >system won't recognize 5.25" drives plugged into the disk port in
: >the back of the computer.

: You need to snip some resistors on the duodisk analog card to get it to work
: in a daisy chain. Don't ask me which ones, I only remember reading this in
: a mag or somewhere years ago. Oughtta be a tech note somewhere about it.
: -- 

I've had my DuoDisk not only chained to  ONE  3.5" drive (AE) but TWO (AE
and Apple) with NO problems whatsoever other than having to move my 3rd HD
partition in my Ramfast configuration to a different slot.  ProDOS 8
wouldn't recognize it phantomed as s2,d1 but GS/OS would.


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