Re: Using a PCT as a RAM

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4h47bh$5fd@cwis-20.wayne.edu>,
Charles A. Plater <cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu> wrote:
> Bill Scheffler (schefflr@news.msus.edu) wrote:
> : Erik Gachot (gachot@mts.vbo.dec.com) wrote:
> 
> : : 	My question is : is there a way to bypass these two
> : : 			 error messages ?
> 
> : 	Odds are that you have the Apple RAM Card driver installed in 
> : your *:System:Drivers folder.  BTW, I don't mean the RAM5 one, the 
> : "Slinky" RAM driver.

It is called "A2.RAMCARD".

> The errors that you are getting, deal with the fact that the AE driver 
> that is patched ito ProDOS also adds a driver for the drive controllers 
> on the card.

No it doesn't.  The patch code simply downloads the ProDOS/SmartPort
interface firmware into the PC Transporter, and sets up the drive
assignments within the card.  It cannot possibly load a GS/OS driver,
because GS/OS hasn't even been loaded at this stage.

I don't know exactly why the A2.RAMCARD driver misbehaves with a PC
Transporter (it only does this if you boot straight into GS/OS with
the driver being installed - if you go into ProDOS-8 first, or boot
GS/OS again, there is no problem).