Re: FDHD woes !

[paw@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)]

cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu) replies

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Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
>In article <1994May29.112213.67615@qut.edu.au>,  <yeo@qut.edu.au> wrote:
>>      Does anyone has any idea on the FDHD problems ? ->
>>
>>      I connected a FDHD controller card with a SuperDrive and a 3.5"
>>Drive on Slot 5. The slot was turned to "Your Card" and the RAMDisk does
>>not show up on the Finder.
>>
>>      I cannot seem to be able to boot up games that does not use
>>GS/OS or Finder (Such as Space Cluster or Alien Mind!) with the SuperDrive
>>as the first device on Slot 5.
>>
>>      Suggestions please
>
>Sounds like you have some naughty programs using firmware entry points that
>they're not supposed to which are different on the superdrive card.

The above answer is probably why those games don't work. As to a solution,
here's what I did. I'm assuming you have 1 fdhd, and 1 regular 3.5 drive.

Put the fdhd card in slot six, and set slot six to your card. Plug the
fdhd into the fdhd card. Plug the regular 3.5 drive into the disk port
on the back of the //gs (where it would normally go). set slot five to
smart port. plug your 5.25 drives into the back of the regular 3.5 drive.
reboot, and you should be all set.

A disadvantage of this setup is that you can only use 1 of either the
fdhd drive or your 5.25 drives at one time (big deal, I've not touched
my duodisk in months :) If you need the 5.25s for a session, set slot
six back to disk port temporarily.

An advantage to this setup is that you can now boot from both 3.5 drives,
because they are each in a separate slot.

Since you turned slot 5 to smart port, the firmware which controls the
ramdisk is active again, and it should show up as normal.

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With the RAMcard driver that came with System 6.01, you can have slot 5
set to your card and still have a RAM disk!
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