mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) (02/19/90)
In article <13127@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes: > >Hmm, yes. I've traced the problem back to this sider (datamac) drive I've got. >Apparently the driver that GS/OS generates has a problem or two, and it >causes random freezes. (Actually, not _quite_ random. I can reliably dupicate >it now) > I'd be interested in details of this. I have *never* seen a generated driver freeze on a Sider. >Does anyone out there have GS/OS drivers for the Sider drives? I've got the >Prodos chip from Advance Tech, but they didn't include any GS/OS drivers >or nuthin'. > The Sider drivers from First Class Peripherals include drivers for the ATS ROM chip, of which I have both. Every now and then it causes a several- second hang, which I determined to be that it's going out there to try to read a second (daisy-chained) Sider, of which I don't have one. Of. Anyway, I changed the driver auxtype to reflect that it only supported one device instead of two, and GS/OS no longer activated the DIB for the second Sider of which I don't have one. Of. It works even better now. > Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <or> radius!cwilson@apple.com >Janitor/Architect of comp.binaries.apple2 archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu > I don't speak for SRI, someone else does. -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions represented here are Developer Technical Support, Apple II | not necessarily those of Apple Group. Personal mail only, please. | Computer, Inc. Remember that." ============================================================================