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From: jeffj@pro-avalon.cts.com (Jeff Jungblut)
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Subject: Re: Hard Drives and Slots
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Date: 8 Jul 89 01:52:36 GMT
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Jeremy Mereness writes:

>What slots are prohibited for a device like a hard drive? 
>slot 1 is printer, 2 is modem, 3 is 80 columns, 4 is mouse, 5 is smart
>port, 6 is 5.25 drives, and 7 is appletalk. What's left? 
>I will be using appletalk, so conceivably both #1 and #7 are out. #6 and
>#5 are used by my floppies.
>So what is the deal with #3 and #4? Is the ADB mouse dead if a card is
>in slot 4? and does Appletalk really lock out two slots? I want to ad a
>Stereo/MIDI card on top of the hard drive, and if I go for a 20 meg
>internal (neither AE or Inner Drive use SCSI) I would like to add
>another SCSI with more space later on. 
>
>jeremy mereness

Solution: buy another IIgs.  %^)

I'm pretty sure AppleTalk takes two slots.  At work, I have a IIgs connected
to an AppleTalk ImageWriter using Port 2/Slot 7 and a serial LaserJet
connected to Port 1.  I have a 512K slinky card in Slot 4, and I can't use
the mouse.  I had first tried putting the RAM card in Slot 2, since the
Control Panel was set to Your Card for that slot, but it could not access the
RAM disk in Slot 2 after printing over AppleTalk.  Rebooting does get the RAM
disk back, but GS/OS does need to be reloaded to re-init AppleTalk.  (This is
a real slow pain.. does anyone know how to get AppleTalk initialized without
booting GS/OS and going through Chooser II?)  Also, you can't put a hard disk
in Slot 3, as programs that use the 80-column firmware in that slot will
break.  (Try setting Slot 3 to Your Card, go into BASIC, and do a PR#3.)

To use a printer, modem, 80-col, mouse, SmartPort, disk port, AppleTalk,
stereo card, OKS Kache card, digitizer, Video Overlay Card, and all of the
other goodies, you'll need 11+ slots and 3 or more ports.

-- jeffj@pro-avalon

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