Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article <3740f739.11220719@news.direct.ca>, wizard@direct.ca (Astro) wrote:

> Do you mean change disks as in separate drives, or 2 disks in the same
> drive?
> 
> Actually, that is an excellent issue: can you access more than 1 drive
> from the ProDOS command line? Or does the system only recognize the
> boot drive [whichever it might happened to have been]. I have external
> 5.25" and 3.5" drives daisy-chained. 

You can actually access as many drives as you have online.

It would be possible to put 7 disk II controller cards into a IIe, put
a different disk in each drive (with a different name) and access the
correct disk just by using it's prefix.  You could then switch all the
disks around and ProDOS will go and start looking through all the drives
in it's device list to find that volume again.

The only real problem I've ever run across with this is that ProDOS 8
has some problems dealing with removeable SCSI devices.

Greg B.
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