Re: [Q] Some questions to using SCSI hard drive with Apple IIe

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

spix2000@my-deja.com wrote:

> Recently I've an Apple SCSI card. Installed in Slot 4 in my IIe.
> And connect an external hard drive (with an Apple 40MB SCSI in Mac SE).
> I've partitioned it to one ProDOS and one Macintosh voulme with
> DriveSetup in MacOS 8.6 on my PowerMac 6100

Sounds like you have two computers sharing the same SCSI HD. This is
an unusual situation and I have no idea about any problems that might
crop up.

> After connecting, My IIe doesn indicating in as Slot 4, Drive 1.
> And I've formatted it with ProDOS 8 and copy some needed files to it.
> After formatting, I'm using it well.

If it doesn't show up as being in the slot it's in then where does it show
up?

> But, I don't know how to booting from hard drive.

A IIe boots from the highest numbered slot it finds a disk drive in.
That's
why most people usually place the SCSI card in slot 7.  If you have some
special reason you can't put the SCSI card in slot 7 then you an boot off
it
by doing a Control-Reset at startup and typing PR#4 then press return.
Change the 4 to the slot number you have the SCSI card in. You can also
have a small program on a floppy in your 5.25" drive to make the
IIe boot another slot.

While most of the slots are pretty much interchangeable some slots have
been traditionally used for certain cards and some software will expect to
find
it there. The most important would be having the 5.25" floppy interface in
slot
6 and the printer card if you have one in slot 1 Here's a possible setup,
however
there's literally hundreds of different cards for the IIe.

Slot 1 - printer- a few programs won't look for a printer card anywhere
else
Slot 2 - modem. if not then clock card, ramcard, etc
Slot 3 - most cards won't work here if there's a card in the Auxiliary
slot
Slot 4 - mouse, if no mouse then almost anything
Slot 5 - 3.5" drive, clock card, etc
Slot 6 - 5.25" drive - some older programs expect a 5.25" drive here
Slot 7 - SCSI, video, workstation, etc


> Is it required some special programs?

Since you'll likely have a number of different programs on the HD, you'll
want a program selector. I like Prosel 8. Prosel 8 also contains a number
of hard drive maintenance utilities. However there are also a number of
other
good program selectors for the IIe.

    Wayne