Re: IIgs RAM drive question

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <19991215013538.00503.00001247@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
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


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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)