toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) (04/15/89)
I recently purchased the 'Subject' hardware, and installed the Smart Port in slot 7 of my Enhanced Allpe //e, while connecting the Disk Drive to port 1 od the interface card. It works GREAT using ProDOS 8, and any ProDOS application programs that I currently have. I have had problems getting any other systems to work with it, so here are some things I would like to know; I got a copy of AMDOS off of APPLE2-L at BROWNVM, and followed the directions for installing it from my 5 1/4 drives in slot 6. The 3.5 drive can be accessed from AMDOS when it is booted from the 5 1/4 drive in slot 6, but won't boot from the the 3.5 in slot 7 after I copied all the files to it. Well, it starts to boot, but then dies with a jump to the monitor. I really want to boot from the 3.5 in the highest slot possible. --- Are the instructions missing something?? --- Does it have to boot from slot 5 or slot 6?? Is there any way to get HyperC to use the 3.5 drive?? Or for that matter, any drives in slots other than 6?? I like the fundamentals of the HyperC System, but the lack of support of serial devices and anything but two 5 1/4 drives in slot 6 put a big crimp on its usability. Which brings me back to some previous postings... There was a statement that a second disk with utilities was going to be posted. --- Was it ever posted anywhere, and where (Compuserve, GEnie etc.)?? --- If it was, could somebody send me a copy via email?? --- If it wasn't, when and/or will it ever be posted?? --- Is there ANY possibility that the ProDOS version could be public domain, so that it could be distributed (which would solve almost all the problems - the ability to interface with ProDOS utilities would make life so much easier)?? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give.. -- ------------------------------------------------+--------------------- Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so | Joseph G. Toth Jr. seldom understood. Don't FLAME on me, please. | uunet!tellab5!toth