Re: Apple ][ Prodos Volume Questions

[David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>]

Robert Steinmetz <not-rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> writes:
>Thanks for the quick response. I understand the order much 
>better now and think I know what to expect. I need to put ProDOS 
>2x on a floppy, which is easier said than done with my hardware 
>setup. I think I going to enable a dial-in port on a server at 
>the office to allow this to happen, although I also have a copy 
>of crossworks with a cable here somewhere.

Make sure you have a 65c02/65816 equipped Apple (enhanced IIe,
IIc, IIc+ or IIgs) to run ProDOS 8 v2.x.

>I assume that ProDOS 2.x uses the actual slots first and the 
>begins using predefined list, skipping any slots already used.

Yes. Note that a Smartport card in slot 5 will still try to use
slot 2 for drives 3 & 4, then it will use the table to assign the
remaining drives.

Your table of drives looks correct to me.

>I read that the slot does not have to be vacant but only not 
>occupied by a block device, and that slots containing some types 
>of cards like serial cards and mouse cards can be remaped also.

Correct. ProDOS is only concerned with disk controller cards
during this phase of initialisation so ignores
serial/printer/mouse/80col/clock etc cards. BASIC.SYSTEM
on the other hand ignores the virtual drives so if you do PR#2
it will call the serial card in slot 2 not try to boot from
a remapped drive.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia