CFFA

[Don Diener <dondNoSpam@nevada.edu>]

Hi all,

Does anybody have a CFFA card working with a "Superdrive" controller?

Not long ago received a CFFA card from Run 3 and had everything working 
fine. Then I was able to buy an Apple II 3.5 ("Superdrive") disk controller 
card on E-Bay. I have not been able to get my Apple II GS to boot from the 
CFFA card with the disk controller card installed. Here is the setup: 

Rom 3 GS 4 MB RAM card
Slot 1: Apple High Speed SCSI card 
Slot 3: 8 MHz Zip GSX 
Slot 5: "Superdrive" controller 
Slot 7: CFFA card w 512 M Sandisk CFC 

Whether the boot drive is set to "7" or "Scan" the computer attempts to 
boot from the CFFA card, but fails with the message "Unable to boot from 
ProDos". The same thing happens with "PR#7" from the Applesoft prompt. 
However, if I type "PR#1" the computer boots properly from a hard drive 
attached to the SCSI card. Everything comes up fine. I see all the 
partitions (4 ProDos + 1 HFS) on the CFFA as well as on the hard drive.  
Everything works fine. 

I have checked to be be sure that the slots with cards installed are set to 
"Your Card."  I have tried moving the Disk Controller card to slot 6, 
swapping the cards in slots 5 and 7, and changing the speed of the slots on 
the ZipGS control panel. Nothing has any effect except pulling the 
Superdrive controller. As soon as I do, I can again boot from the CFFA. I 
am sure that I once saw a report of somone who had both a CFFA and a 
Superdrive controller in a II GS with everthing working.