News wrote:
hi all, i finally struck gold (i hope).. i have been collecting apple 2 stuff for quite a while but have been suffering along with no hard drives in any of them. anyway i found today a apple2 scsi card still in its box and everything .. i got it for 75 cents. my question is now what do i do? i have plenty of external scsi cases and 25 pin to centronics 50 pin cables (which my external cables have) and have everything from a 250 meg scsi drive all the way up to a 2 gig drive, which one should i use and what is the best way of configuring the scsi drive for bootabiltiy??
Well it depends on how often you use Prodos-8. Seriously. If you use it often, you're best off dividing your local drive in 32 Mb partitions and choosing a small drive for local access. If you don't use P8 that much, divide your hard drive into one 32 Mb partition (which would be the boot partition) and leave the rest as HFS. I've heard there's a bug in the HFS FST, but AFAIK it's not that serious...
also is there any way of using my powermac 7500 (which is connected to my network via dhcp and a NAT server for internet connectivity) so that i could access the massive amount of stuff that i have downloaded for the apple 2?? (i vaguely remember someone sayig i could use the apple talk or localtalk or the modem ports in the back of the gs). my gs is a rom 3 model with a 2 meg ram card and now will have that scsi card.
Yes, there is. First, set up the hardware. Connect your GS modem or printer port to your PowerMac's printer port with a localtalk or phonenet cable. (The localtalk cables are the ones that end in these three-connector boxes. I use them and they work fine).
Second, set up the Mac software. Your Mac needs to have the Appleshare server on it. Assuming it does, you just configure it as usual (users, groups, folders to share, and so on). Make sure you have both appletalk and File sharing turned on.
On the GS side, assign Appletalk to either Slot 1 or Slot 7, enable the network file perm INIT and appleshare FST and INIT, and voila, you can now browse shared folders on your Powermac.
~Mike