Re: Apple 2 SuperDrive Controller card problems.

[dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)]

In article <platkus.726649352@roby.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes:
>[...]
>Secondly, and most important, I installed the card in slot 5 as recomended by
>the owner's guide.  I of course switched the control panel setting for slot
>5 to "your card".  I have a high density SuperDrive as the first drive to the 
>card, and an older apple 3.5" 800k drive daisy chained to the SuperDrive.
>The problem is that now my ramdisk no longer remaps to slot 2 drive 1 with
>the new controller card, and thus it is inaccessible.
>
>What do I need to do to get the ramdisk back[? ...]

This is an unfortunate fact of life--RAM5 shows up only when slot 5 is
set to Smart Port.  If you had a slot free, you could put the SuperDrive
card in another slot and leave slot 5 set to Smart Port.

If there were a RAM-based GS/OS driver for RAM5, it could make RAM5 show
up even when slot 5 is set to Your Card.  It -might- even be able to make
RAM5 show up under ProDOS 8, but that's much harder!  (I can't, of course,
speculate about when (or whether) you might see such a driver from Apple.)
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