nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (05/27/91)
[Mac technical warning for rec.music.synthers]
One recurring problem with Sys 7.0: it seems to insist on running
AppleTalk. I don't want it. I don't have a printer. What I *do* have
is a MOTU MIDI Time Piece plugged into both serial ports. I want MIDI
Manager to run on both ports, but most of the time it refuses, saying
the printer port is allocated. Sure enough, I open the Chooser, and
it's running AppleTalk. So, I close it down, and things are fine. I
reboot, and things are fine. I reboot again, and AppleTalk is running
again. Argh...
This is a problem because I don't want to have to open the Chooser
every time I reboot my machine. It's a more serious problem because
there seems to be some INIT code which does a general network grope
when the machine boots; this often brings down my MIDI Time Piece
and/or affects my synthesiser network.
So, please: how do I nuke the AppleTalk stuff properly? I want
completely and totally rid of it...
Nick.
P.S. Oh yes, another problem with MIDI Manager. The PatchBay DA has a
control-panel-like interface to the serial port drivers. But, this
won't open under 7.0 - it just beeps. It wouldn't open under 6.0.7
either unless I stripped out most of my INITs (SUM Partition in
particular), and won't open at all under 7.0 even with all other INITs
off. All I can do at present is boot from a cut-down 6.0.7 floppy if I
want to change the serial driver settings. This is irritating.
--
Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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