Re: IIgs Questions...

[cdyson@redshift.com (Clarence Dyson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>Clarence Dyson <cdyson@redshift.com> wrote:
>
>> The GS-Ram Expander has switches 2 & 3 set to on. Is this correct?
>
>Can't answer that one.

Still working on that one. 

>> With both cards hooked together, which card plugs into the IIgs?
>
>Assuming this is the card that piggy-backs another one onto it, then you
>need to plug the original card into the expander, and the expander goes
>in the IIgs.

Either card will plug into the RAM slot but I would thing the 1.5meg
card plugs in first with the daughter card plugged into it. Anyway,
the daughter card seems to not work at the moment.

>> Also, the Sider HD doesn't work. Think it's a bad HD. Seagate ST-157N
>> hooked to a RamFAST Rev D v3.00 SCSI card. Who makes RamFAST? Any
>> good? 
>
>I didn't know that Sider made SCSI drive mechanisms - I always think of
>their old SASI-based system when I hear "Sider" mentioned.  (The Seagate
>ST-157N is a SCSI drive, as indicated by the 'N' suffix.)

It says "Sider" on the front of the case. The ST-157N is bad and now
wall art. I replaced it with a 80meg Quantum I had kicking around.
Works fine.

>The RamFast is currently sold and supported by Sequential Systems.
>
>> I installed a Quantum 80mb and was able to format and partition it OK
>> and install ProDOS 8 on it. All the software that came with it was
>> games and such, no OS.

Checked out their site and found out I had the 1meg cache version.
Seems to be fast enough. 

>> What OS does a IIgs normally run?
>
>You can use any operating system supported by 8-bit Apple II models: DOS
>3.3, ProDOS-8 or Apple II Pascal.  (CP/M is also possible, if you have a
>IIgs-compatible CP/M card.)

Got ProDOS installed on the HD for now. It runs CP/M just fine but
haven't tried anything else yet.

And I'll leave the SCAI card in slot 7 for now as I'm not planning on
using AppleTalk at the moment. Might later to hook up to the laser
printer.

Anyway, thanks for all the help. I'm still have to finish reading all
the manuals. Lots of fun to play with though. Now where can I get a
TCP/IP stack for it ;-)

Take Care..