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Re: Reads Prodos disks

AIIFREAK wrote:

Hi Wayne
Thanks for your message-got that all.But on Apple.discussions there is
a discussion that this doesn't work. Got an ebay adress selling IIe
Card with two Disks-and a card where need of Dealer's installion is
printed on the box!
I didn't try myself yet-but have to know how to switch off 32-bit
adressing.Found no way until now in systems  I use (OS 7.6-Control
Panel) Must I go down to an earlier System?
Thanks in advance
Rainer


Installing the IIe card is fairly easy. If you're planning on booting
off a ProDOS partition on the Macs hard drive then you're looking at
reformatting the hard drive. If you don't need to preserve any data
on it, then that's relatively painless. I went with one HFS and two
ProDOS partitions.

You need to be able to turn off 32 bit addressing in the Macs memory
control panel to use the IIe card. OS 7.5.5 is the last Mac OS that
lets you do that. While you could use an earlier OS, 7.5.5 does a
neater job of handling ProDOS disks. If you're mostly just using the
Mac to run the IIe card, then a HFS and one or two ProDOS partitions
does it. If you're using the Mac for other things where a later OS
would be advantagous then having a second HFS partition for a later
OS might be worth considering.

If you don't plan on booting off a ProDOS partition then just install
the card and software on a machine with 7.5.5 or earlier. Restart with
32 bit addressind disabled and run the IIe card software.

Wayne