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Re: GS/OS Question

Rich wrote:

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

  To: Rich
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:31:15 -0400, Rich wrote:
One thing that is puzzling me is that if I try to launch a game or application on other than the boot partition, I get a dialogue box "Please insert the disk DELTA" (where DELTA is the name of the partition... ALPHA is the boot partition) Choices are 'OK' (which fails) and 'ESC'. 

I've had this sort of thing happen to me when launching ProDOS 8
programs from GS/OS.  It seems that the mapping of partitions under
ProDOS 8 wasn't getting all my partitions for some reason.  I have 11
ProDOS partitions on my hard drive and when doing something like
launching AppleWorks, my /Data/ partition with all my AppleWorks files
would not get mapped into a slot/drive so I couldn't get at them.  I'd
have to copy any file I wanted to work with to a different partition to
be able to access it.

This _might_ be the problem your running into but I'd have to look into
it further myself to be able to tell you how to check it or fix it.
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Thank you Jeff and Mike!
I think you're on the track. I did a little more experimentation. Problem seems confined to Prodos 8 applications; couldn't duplicate it with GSOS applications on any partition. Using Ramfast, I unmapped all but the first four partitions; Alpha (boot partition), Bravo, Charlie and Delta. 
Any leads or suggestions of things to try as an experiment are welcome.

I think I'll go re-read the FAQ's and the RAMFAST manual, just to be sure.

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Rich ('-')
"When all else fails, RTFM!" (For those unfamiliar with RTFM, it translates roughly as Read The Fine Manual.)
There is a good discussion of Prodos 8 Volume mapping on page 22 of the Ramfast D manual. According to the manual, Prodos 8 should have mapped the volumes appropriately (version 2.0.1 or later). However, since it wasn't, then it can be done by the Ramfast card. 

I did so, and everything works OK, now.

Just played my first game of "Columns" in 10 years!

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Rich ('-')