Re: FDHD Blues

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>I would have thought that the SuperDrive card would be able to
>recognise that it was running on a IIgs, and patch into the original
>SmartPort in some way, so that all devices on both busses were
>available.  Unfortunately, Apple neglected to provide this facility.
>
>It would also be very useful if Apple released a native GS/OS driver
>for /RAM5.  This wouldn't help with ProDOS-8, of course.

There is a shareware driver for /ram5.  It makes /ram5 many times faster
( according to ProSEL test ), and allows you to access the /ram5 ramdisk
even if slot-5 is set to "your card".  It does, however, require you to
manually initialize /ram5 and you can't access /ram5 from ProDOS 8.

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