Re: wild setup for using imagmaker and cf cards/etc!

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

i messed up on the below list of stuff....there were only 2 cf cards in the
beast w/the focus internal hd ..not 3 as mentioned below...swapping back and
forth i lost track
so the below setup is correct but for the cf card (mine) in slot 6 was
pulled...so it works with 2 cf cards and the ramfast and focus hd etc below

anyway....just for your info



brad



"brad" <mrbrad@ll.net> wrote in message
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> Just thought i'd throw this out..had a buddy in town this week and he
> brought his 2 cf cards with 512mb scandisks on them....we were trying to
> setup the imagemaker setup and diskmaker setup also the ciderpress product
> as well...to see how to back up hds and floppies and stuff..we need to
> archive our stuff...we seem to have most of the xfer bugs figured
out...all
> the programs seem to work guite well
>
> but as i was sitting there i started laughing while looking into the
gs...it
> was a xmas tree of lights..so just for everyones amusement and the fact
that
> this stuff did all work together when we were swaping and testing
diskmaker
> and imagemaker and the ciderpress software..with these hardware
> devices....... this is what we had going on
>
> with lid taken off
>
> Main CPU  apple //gs upgrade kit cpu rom 1 motherboard
> slot 1           cf/card with 512mb scandisk card (buddies)
> slot 2           focus 576 meg hard drive card w/prodos //e utils
> slot 3          default (empty)
> slot 4          cf/card with 512mb scandisk card (buddies)
> slot 5           default (empty)
> slot 6          empty now...mistake...(default)
> slot 7          ramfast rev D SCSI card w/ rev b eprom
>
> mem:  applied engineering 4meg card (slinky?ver?) small
>           (forget the name last type 4meg made by a.e.i think)
>
> CPU upgrade: all this running on a modified applied
>          engineering Transwarp GS card ..tweaked with
>           chip mod for 14mhz (stable speed).
>
> anyway everything worked fine including the xfering to the ibm pc of disk
> images and such for 5.25 floppies and 3.5 floppies and hd partions (32meg)
> etc etc...using ciderpress imagemaker/diskmaker etc etc
>
> so it looks like i just have to sit down and go thru everything i have and
> suck it into the win XP machine
> and eventually burn the stuff to backup CD's or DVD's etc..prob take me a
> year ...sheesh..
>
> anyway just for your info
>
> brad
> former sysop www.lost-gonzo.com
>
> p.s. it also came to mind about that possible card that would do USB
devices
> on a apple ii gs would be a great
> help on this project any ideas on its progress????..be great to xfer to a
> usb 256meg port device and over to the win XP machine of my disk
> images/backups etc
>
> last point a lot of my 5.25 floppies the files were good but the boot
> section of the disks were very old (like lets see.. 1976 to 2004...jeez...
> 28yrs old...)...anyway..even thou ....these disks did not boot directly
off
> floppies.the files were good..but could not boot themselves anymore
directly
> ...they came up fine with ciderpress etc for checking disk images and such
> after the xfer...that is a relief ..hate to have to format a bunch of 5.25
> disks and xfer the files before doing the imagemaker/diskmaker/ciderpress
> process...came up fine verified fine ..seems the boot tracks are the 1st
to
> go on these very old 5.25 media..but was not a real needed fix before
> backing up the disks (assuming the files themselves are ok)...via the
above
> programs..just for your info
>
> anyway for those keeping track...the above stuff had NO hardware/software
> problems for what we attempted in testing/xfering etc
>
> anyway...was pretty cool to play with
>
> brad
> former sysop lost-gonzo.com
>
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