Re: Apple IIE

[aw133@lafn.org (James Poore)]

In a previous article, ae198@lafn.org (leroy humphries) says:

>
>I have an Apple IIE with a 1 meg expander card in it. How do I download 
>to it. If I put it in slot 7 will my disk drives in 6 still kick in or 
>will I have to us PR#6 to use them. Also I had a hard drive that bit the 
>dust and wanted to know if I can put in any kind of new hard drive from 
>any company or does it have to be an Apple Hard drive.
>
>
To make life easier, put the ramcard at a lower slot than the drives.  On 
my IIe, I have a Ramfactor in slot 5, 5-1/4 Drives in Slot 6, and 3-1/2 
Drives in slot 7.  The ramfactor shows up as Ram5 on the drive list when 
downloading with Proterm.  All you have to do is select Ram5 as the 
volume to download to.  You can also set it up permanently in Proterm by 
setting the download option in the preferences menu to RAM5.

As far as the hard drive goes, if you have a SCSI card, you can pretty 
much use any SCSI drive but remember you can only have 32meg per drive 
per slot minus the amount of floppy drives you have connected.  So, Apple 
II's have 7 slots with a possible 2 drives per slot for a total of 14 
partitions.  If you have 2 5-1/4 drives and 2 3-1/2 drives that would 
subtract 4 leaving a total of 10 @ 32meg for a grand total of 320meg.
So a hard drive with anything over 320 meg would be wasted, unless of 
course you want to switch partitions around.

Jim

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