Re: Questions about the Transporter IIgs Card

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>"Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net> wrote:
>>Yap, I finally, got it to work last night.  I guess it does not want to work
>>with just 800k drives.  I scavenged a superdrive out of a Mac Classic and put
>>it in a spare drive case I had (well, okay, I had to take the drive out) and
>>it works like a charm!  It will only do two drives, though, eh?  I have three
>>in the chain but no dice.  Also, can I put the 5.25" on the standard disk port
>>and still run it or should I set up another IIgs for that (Heh, I have a few
>>spares with monitors now.....)
> 
>I'm not certain how many drives it will take, but I'd put the SuperDrives
>and the Apple 3.5 drives on the SuperDrive controller's chain and I'd
>put the card into slot 5.  This will let you set slot 6 to "Disk Port" and
>let you run the 5.25" drives on the GS' drive port.  The SuperDrive
>controller cannot run 5.25" drives.

    Most likely two drives at maximum when talking about either the
Apple 3.5 or Apple SuperDrive (you may be able to use more than 2
UniDisk 3.5 drives, though why anyone would want to use the card to
operate _any_ UniDisk's is beyond me).

    I'd recommend installing it in slot 6 (most people rarely use
their 5.25 drives, and can easily re-enable it easily enough) and 
connect any Apple 3.5 drives to the GS's Smartport in back. This 
ensures you have compatibility with older software titles that are 
hardcoded to work run from drives connected through the Smartport 
(this includes almost all the FTA demos).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca