Subject: Re: Ramfast help needed Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc04.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:38:05 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Lines: 69 Message-ID: <7tpmps$q43$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.12.4.23 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Oct 10 09:38:05 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x31.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 207.12.4.23 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDcyberdaniel In article , cornelio@san.rr.com (L. Cornelio) wrote: > > Yes, I got lucky & acquired a ramfast. Hooked to an external 200 meg > drive, very nice! > But I have no manual & so no idea how to use the utilities. > > I wanted to chain a zip drive to this setup. {Ramfast in slot 7 set to > yourcard} > > The Zip is has ID set to 5 , but it doesn't'show up in the finder. > {The disk is formatted OK as HFS & shows up fine on another machine w/ > apple SCSI card} > > Do I need to do something special? When I run the Ramfast program, the > drive doesn't show up until I pick the SCSI utilies from the ramfast menu; > then my external drive shows as ID 6 and the zip as ID5. If I highlight > the zip. I get another menu, presumably to partition it -- but I can type > in a partition name & shouldn't have to anyway. When I select partion > w/out giving a name I get "Ramfast SCSI fatal error" > > I am sure there is something simple to do this that I just don't know about. > A walk-though of the sets would certainly be appreciated! > > thanks! > > -Louis > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Louis Cornelio http://home.san.rr.com/cornelio > Apple II, my classroom and the Ramito Homepage > Mr Cornelio, While in the RamFast SCSI utilities click on the Zip Drive hi light the Zip drive & press return. Check the active column for the Zip drive make sure it has a Y for active. Use the right arrow key to move the cursor over to the active column for the Zip drive & press return to change it to Y for active. Some of the partitions of the hard drive may have to be turned off so the Zip drive will have a slot setting under ProDOS 8. After the Zip is active quit the utilities & go back to the main menu & click on S to save the settings. Hard drive slots can be changed from the main menu. Click on the drive name & slot it is set to, move the cursor to slot & drive number you want it changed to & press return. Always remember to save the settings by clicking on save at the top of the main menu screen. The ability to reassign slot & drive numbers allows you to boot from a another partition. Under ProDOS 8 slots for hard drives counting the 5.25 & 3.5" floppy are limited. That is why the Ramfast is a great SCSI card because you can unmap volumes that show up in the main menu of Ramfast Utilities. Whenever you need to access a volume that is deactivated, just unmap a volume you do not need & activate the one that you need. A large hard drive on a Apple IIGS formatted ProDOS & booted using GSOS will cover the GS desktop with hard drive partitions 32k limit for ProDOS & GSOS. Being able to turn them off or unmap them is a handy feature. Daniel Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.