Re: floptical and noisetracker questions

[ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu]

In article <29cu0r$4t2@r-node.io.org>, taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:
> In article <1993Oct9.224127.10718@msuvx2>, ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu writes...
>> 
>> 1)  Reads/writes (with no problems) 	[80% of the time]
>> 2)  Read only				[15% of the time]
>> 3)  Drive not recognized.		[5% of the time]
>> 
>> 	I have not been able to determine why this happens.  If I boot straight
>> into Prodos-8, condition 3 is the most frequent experience.
>> 	If anyone has any ideas at all what I can try, I'll gladly try it.
> 
>     I assume you are booting with a floptical in the drive?  It might
> make a difference if you boot on an empty drive, then insert a floptical
> after startup.  I'm not familiar with the Apple DMA + floptical combo.

	After long and ardous checking (ok, something went *click* ;-)), I've
found out why Prodos-8 doesn't recognize the floptical.  If I go into Prodos-8
(either from GS/OS or cold boot) and there is no floptical disk in the drive,
the Prodos doesn't recognize it.  If there is, then I can read from it. 
However, if I want to WRITE to the floptical, I still have to go to Prodos-8
from GS/OS (ie, no write privs - get error - when booting directly into
Prodos-8).
	However, when I boot into GS/OS, I have to have the drive empty when
the driver is being loaded, otherwise an extra HD (can't read/write/access). 
I'm going to get around to installing Tulin's drivers some day (I just hate the
idea of it deleting the SCSImanager and SCSIHD tho - as someone here said it
does).
	Ciao.

-Tao