Re: Booting from a ProFile

[tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator)]

aphelps@vicstoy.UUCP (Austin Phelps) writes:

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>dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>>If you put the SuperDrive card into Slot 5, you won't be able to access
>>the RAM disk.  My solution to this was to put the SuperDrive card in
>>slot 6 - I have my standard 3.5" drive connected to the IIgs drive
>>port (S5, D1), RAM5 is (S5, D2) and the SuperDrive is (S6, D1).  If I
>>need to use the 5.25" drives, I set slot 6 back to "Disk Port".
>
>Huh? I though the /RAM5 was on S3,D2. S5 are for both 3.5 drives.

You must be thinking about /RAM, the 64K ramdisk which Prodos 8 installs
which is always S3,D2.  /RAM5 is S5,D2 on my system with two 3.5"s connected.

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