Re: IIgs RAM drive question

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:
>>
>>
>>There is an Apple Memory Expansion Card (the IIe slinky slot card
>>from Apple) driver for GS/OS in System 6.0.1.  Just plug your
>>RamFactor in a slot (in your case, I recommend slot 4, see below
>>for reason), install the GS/OS driver, and you are set.  Naturally,
>>P8 will always see the RamFactor.  Actually, you don't need the
>>driver in GS/OS, but it offers more features (such as the option
>>of formatting the 1MB card as 800k so that you can extract
>>those .shk disk images otherwise called .sdk files).
>>
>>I recommend putting the RamFactor in slot 4 and setting the
>>slot to 'your card' and the reason I do so is because you have
>>a ROM 3.  One of the features of the ROM 3 is access to the
>>mouse under GS/OS even if slot 4 is set to 'your card.'  You
>>can thus use your RamFactor in slot 4 without losing your
>>mouse.
>
>Good advice, except this is a Rom 1, not 3.  The mouse is not handled as
>well in a Rom 1 when running p8.  I think slots 1 and 2 are my best
>candidates.  Can both slot 1 and 2 be set to 'your card' when running
>appletalk on a Rom1 (or even Rom3)?  How does Appletalk (port 7) determine
>which I/O port to use when both are 'your card'?  There are a lot of catch
>22's in a full system. 
>
>  --Steve

Hi Steve, there is a feature of ProTERM 3.1 that lets you set slot 2
to 'your card' and still allow ProTERM 3.1 to access the serial
port.  This was the way I ran my IIGS for a long time.  I have the
Apple High Speed SCSI card in slot 2 and can still use ProTERM
to log onto my shell account.  Give it a try.