Re: IIgs RAM drive question

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <835ua2$nvl$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>,
ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote:

>>> >Ah!  That is my problem.  I have a superdrive controller in Slot 5, with
>>> >the control panel set to 'your card'.  Now I know why p8 can't use /ram5.
>>> >I thought it was a generic gs/os - p8 problem.  I guess my system is a
>>> >special exception.
>>> 
>>> Nope.  My system has a Superdrive controller in slot 5 too.
>>> In fact, I'm pretty sure David's does too.
>>
>>Mine is in slot 6.  I have a standard Apple 3.5 drive and /RAM5 on my
>>slot 5 SmartPort.  (I switch slot 6 back to Disk Port and reboot on
>>those rare occasions when I want to use a 5.25" disk.)
>>
>
>OK, I'm confused.  I thought I understood David's explanation, but
>Supertimer seems to say otherwise.  
>
>My system is a Rom1 GS with 4Meg RamGS/ZipGS 8/64,  GS System 6.0.1.
>  Slot 7 - Appletalk
>  Slot 6 - Apple Hi-speed SCSI card, with 2 ProDOS partition harddrive
>  Slot 5 - Apple superdrive controller with 1 FDHD and 1 800k 3.5 drives
>  Slot 4 -
>  Slot 3 -
>  Slot 2 - direct serial connection to HP unix workstation
>  Slot 1 - 'your card'; with phonenet connector for appletalk network.
>
>I am connected to 4 network volumes (1 MacSE with appleshare3, 1 MacLC
>personal file-sharing, 1 Mac PPC Powerbook 1400cs personal filesharing,
>and 1 Mac PPC 7200 with personal filesharing.  From GS/OS I have 4 network
>volumes, 2 harddrive partitions, 800k /Ram5, and access to the two 3.5
>drives.  In p8, I have 4 network volumes (/7,1 /7,2 /2,1 /2,2) two
>harddrive partitions (/6,1 /6,2) and two floppy drives (/5,1 /5,2).
>
>I have NO /Ram5 volume in p8, but I do in GS/OS.  David explained why,
>but Supertimer does seem to have /ram5 in p8 with a similar setup.  How do
>you get it?
>
>This hasn't entered the discussion yet, but it might be helpful to add.
>What if I put a Ramfactor (1Meg) into the GS, slot ? (I'm guessing slot 1
>since that already is set to 'your card', but is 'your card' neccessary
>for a slinky /ram disk?).  I know there is a special driver in GS/OS
>for an apple2 memory card.  With Ramfactor, will I keep access to /Ramx in
>both p8 and GS/OS?   Catch 22, I'm running a stock IIe powersupply in a
>IIe case with Rom1 GS upgraded motherboard, ZipGS, 4Meg RAmGS, 2 drive
>controller cards: will a RamFactor drive me over edge, power-wise?  This
>system is rock solid in its present configuration, but I do need a new
>powersupply every couple years.

If you want to use a RAMFactor I'd recommend putting your SCSI card in slot 1,
the RAMFactor in slot 5, the superdrive card in slot 6. Since I have a ROM 3,
That's how I have mine only the network is in slot 1 and the SCSI is in slot 7.
My card is an Apple slinky but that makes no difference.

Apple was obsessed with having the 3.5" in slot 5 for some dumb reason. They
even moved the mouse to slot 7 and the slinky to slot 4 on memory expandable
//c's to keep it there. Worse, the //e card for LC class Macs will not let 
you move it elsewhere. It'd make sense to set up //e's and //c's like my
//e: 3.5 in slot 7, 5.25 in slot 6, slinky in slot 5, and mouse in slot 4.
For a IIgs, SCSI in slot 7, superdrive in slot 6, built in RAM disk or slinky
in slot 5 works best.

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