Re: HD controller and /RAM5

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2oipno$24n@crl2.crl.com>, Matthew Pearce <mpearce@crl.com> wrote:
>I recently purchased one of Apple's High Density drive cards for my ROM
>03 GS.  Under GS/OS applications, I can access the RAM disk /RAM5.
> 
>However, once I set slot five to your card instead of the smart port, I
>cannot access the ramdisk from ProDOS 8.  Is there a patch for this?

You can use the RAM disk with slot 5 switched out because there's a native
mode driver to access it. ProDOS 8 has to use the firmware which is not there
with the port switched out. The patch is to move the superdrive card to 
another slot - 6 would be the best candidate. Can't imagine anyone with a 
superdrive needing to use 5.25 disks.

Remember the cool discussion a few months ago about how Apple supposedly
intentionally rooked users by not having the superdrive card firmware 
support the RAM disk?
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