Genie & Lamp Feb97 7/20

[norman.dodge@techall.wa.com]

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other
removable media drives, I am sure.

1) Shut off the GS

2) Insert an unformatted disk (or disk from an inactive FST) into the
Floptical drive.

3) Boot the GS into the RamFAST Utilities by holding the zero key down.
\

What you
should see on the right-hand side is your usual list of volumes, except
\

that for
the Floptical drive, you should see a generic volume name based on the
\

SCSI ID
of the Floptical device.  On my system, this generic name is
CVTECH.ID4.A \

(The
device name is CVTECH.S7.F).

4) Map the generic volume name into an empty slot.  What you will find
at \

this
point is that any disk that you put into the Floptical drive will be \

mapped to
the same slot to which you mapped the generic volume name.

I stumbled into this when I put a HD disk from GNN into the Floptical
drive. Curiously, Finder polled the drive, and did nothing with it.  No
Icon, no \

error
message.  I went into RamFAST Utilities, and there was the generic
volume \

ID.
Further analysis with UniverseMaster and UtilityWorksGS seem to indicate
\

that
the disk name has 'illegal' characters that aren't recognized by the \

MS-DOS FST.
I have 2 AOL disks with the same syndrome.  I have been able to format
these with RamFAST Utilities where GSOS programs won't.

I was able to reproduce the sequence above by deactivating the MS-DOS
FST \

prior
to shutting off the GS, and using an MS-DOS disk in the Floptical drive
\

when I
booted it into RamFAST Utilities.

Don V. Zahniser
Delivered by CoPilot for ANSITerm
                   (D.ZAHNISER, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:161/M645;1)

<<<<<   I just found out there may be an intermediate step missing from
my """""   previous post.  It _may_ be necessary to go into SCSI
Utilities \

while in
RamFAST.Util and click on the device containing the 'unrecognizable'
disk  \

prior
to mapping the generic volume name to the slot.  Here are some
alternate instructions to try:

1) Launch RamFAST Utilities.

2) Insert media that is known to be not recognized by Prodos or
installed \

FSTs.

3) Click on SCSI Utilities, then click on the device containing the
media. \

One
or more generic partition IDs should appear on the right side of the
screen. Click 'Quit' to return to the main RamFAST Utilities panel.
Depending on \

the
contents of the media, one or more new volumes (one or more of which \

should be
generically named with the SCSI ID - e.g. CVTECH.ID0.A, CVTECH.ID0.B,
etc) should appear.

4) Click on the _first_ (e.g.- the CVTECH.ID0.A partition) and map that
to a slot.

5) Quit the RamFAST Utilities, which should prompt a reboot.

I just used Compton's Encyclopedia (which is an 'unknown' format) to map
my CD-ROM drive to a slot.  Now, for the first time, I can directly
access GO.Prodos on the Golden Orchard CD-ROM from within AppleWorks.


Don V. Zahniser
Delivered by CoPilot for ANSITerm
                   (D.ZAHNISER, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:162/M645;1)


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