Jeff Blakeney wrote:
To: Rich
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:31:15 -0400, Rich wrote:
One thing that is puzzling me is that if I try to launch a game or
application on other than the boot partition, I get a dialogue box
"Please insert the disk DELTA" (where DELTA is the name of the
partition... ALPHA is the boot partition) Choices are 'OK' (which
fails) and 'ESC'.
I've had this sort of thing happen to me when launching ProDOS 8
programs from GS/OS. It seems that the mapping of partitions under
ProDOS 8 wasn't getting all my partitions for some reason. I have 11
ProDOS partitions on my hard drive and when doing something like
launching AppleWorks, my /Data/ partition with all my AppleWorks files
would not get mapped into a slot/drive so I couldn't get at them. I'd
have to copy any file I wanted to work with to a different partition to
be able to access it.
This _might_ be the problem your running into but I'd have to look into
it further myself to be able to tell you how to check it or fix it.
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Thank you Jeff and Mike!
I think you're on the track. I did a little more experimentation.
Problem seems confined to Prodos 8 applications; couldn't duplicate it
with GSOS applications on any partition. Using Ramfast, I unmapped all
but the first four partitions; Alpha (boot partition), Bravo, Charlie
and Delta.
When launching an application on Delta, it launches Prodos 8 (ver. 2.0.3
and then gives the above message. If I hit ESC it tells me "Can't run
next application. Prodos Error $0045".
If I copy the application to Bravo, it launches just fine.
The Ramfast is showing Alpha and Bravo mapped to slot Seven, and that is
apparently all that Prodos 8 is seeing. GSOS sees everything that
Ramfast maps.
Curiously, I don't remember this being a problem ten years ago when I
was an active IIGS user. Either my memory is bad (possibly!) or I had
things set up differently and didn't encounter the problem.
Any leads or suggestions of things to try as an experiment are welcome.