Re: AppleTalk GS to Mac filesharing?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <17.48518669.Logic.IS@logicbbs.org>,  <Jim.Low@logicbbs.org> wrote:
>  
> By the way, I discovered if you place an old Disk ][ controller card in any 
> slot below 5, it won't work unless you set the Control Panel speed to 
> "Normal."

Actually, it is any slot below 4.  The IIgs has a hardware facility for
automatically setting the CPU speed to slow if the disk motor is
turned on for a Disk ][ controller (or later derivative), but only if
the card is installed in slots 4 through 7 (this feature is enabled
separately for each slot, but there are only four bits available in the
byte which configures this feature).

If you only use the GS/OS drivers to access a 5.25" drive in slot 1-3,
it will handle the speed change for you.  It is only a problem if you
access the drive from 8-bit software (or ProDOS-16, the predecessor of
GS/OS).
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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