Re: Apple IIgs CD-ROM Hook Up Question

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1117240370.495733.238690@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 "Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:

> HD is 4, the CD Rom is 3.  I'm not sure what just plugging in the CD
> drive would do, its not like I can boot from it or anything. Does the
> lower numbered device need to be first in the chain or anything?
> 

Physical order of the device IDs on the chain is irrelevant.

As far as trying with the CD only, boot into ProDOS with the CD drive 
empty - I'd boot from a later (ProDOS-based) version of CopyII+ on 
floppy if I were troubleshooting this here at home - then stuff in a 
ProDOS or Mac format CD, and use the C2+ utilites to show you what 
volumes are online.

Do give it a few seconds to spin up the disk and whatever other 
"bookkeeping" might be needed, of course.

If nothing you can do from C2+ shows you a volume in the CD drive, then 
SOMETHING is definitely broke. From here, it's figuring out whether the 
something is the cable, the CD drive, or something else.

Assuming all is working, ProDOS should see an Apple CD-SC with no effort 
at all, though... It did when I was running a 20 meg Apple HD-SC hard 
drive and an Apple CD-SC with an Apple HS-SCSI card on my Enhanced //e. 
Stuffing a CD in the drive and giving a "PREFIX" command would show me 
the CD, and from there, it was just a matter of making use of what data 
was usable. I say that because there were very few Apple II targeted 
CD-ROMs available when I was still "in fighting trim" on the Apple II - 
Most stuff was aimed at PCs/Clones or Macs - This cutting edge 
technology wasn't really much interested in dealing with the "dionsaur" 
Apple II series. I was mostly messing with "Magazines-on-CDs" type 
things. Having a CD drive hung on my //e was was, if I'm to be brutally 
honest, more of a "cool" thing than a "useful" one. And I tell ya, my 
//e was WAY cool, even if I do say so myself! :)

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