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Re: CMS SCSI Card



 To: a2aviator
a2aviator wrote:
What slot and ProDOS version?

With ProDOS 8 2.0 or higher, you can see more than two volumes. P8 2.0
will map the volumes, two per slot, to any slot that does not contain
a Disk or Smartport Device. As it's own partitions will override.

There are no CMS drivers for the SCSI card. Only Apple cards and the
RAMFast had native GS/OS drivers.

The Sider had a GS/OS driver, but thats SASI, not SCSI. It's
electrically the same, but not firmware wise.

Descriptions of ProDOS versions can be found here:

http://apple2.info/wiki/index.php?title=A2_DOS_ProDOS
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Tony/Rich,

There *is* a GS/OS driver for the CMS SCSI card. I'm not sure where it originated, or if it works for all ROM versions, but I managed to track it down some time ago.

With the last ROM version (1990), normally you can only see the two partitions you've selected within GS/OS. With the driver in place you see *all* of the partitions. This isn't an ideal solution though, because if you have a larger drive attached, you get a lot of icons displayed on your desktop. I tried the driver with a 850Mb drive and my desktop was covered with drive icons.

The driver can be downloaded from:
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/apple.cabi.net/Utilities/CMSHDutils.bxy

You have to place the driver (CMS.Driver) in the System:Drivers folder on your GS/OS boot partition.

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Mike

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