Re: Recognizing DOS 3.3 disks on IIGS.

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jeff Thomas wrote:

>I got it working!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Good!

>Thanks to all those who posted suggestions, it happened to be a
>different problem!
>
>I opened up my IIGS and found that my 5.25inch floppy disk drive is
>connected to the "Apple 5.25inch Disk Drive" controller card, rather
>than the Smart Port used by the 3.5inch disk drives. By daisy-chaining
>them to back of the 3.5 inch disk drive, it doesn't work (and
>understandably!).

No, it should work perfectly.  The IIgs will slow down automatically
for all SmartPort (slot 5) accesses.

>It turned out that my IIGS was set in Fast mode, instead of Normal.
>Upon, entering the "Control Panel", switching it to the latter setting,
>it fixed the problem. I felt the problem was related to the clock speed,
>hence why it was reading the 5.25inch disks too fast and making the disk
>sound like it was corrupt.

You could get that effect by just slowing down slot 6.

-michael

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