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From: Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU
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Subject: PCT slots
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Date: 6 Oct 89 15:28:54 GMT
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> Will anyone care to share with me their idea of which slot the PCTransporter
> works best in?  I have a Sider HD card in slot 7, a GS-RAM card in the memory
> slot, and the rest free.  What I'd like to be able to do is access my 5.25"
> drives (2), 3.5" drive (Apple brand, not a UniDisk), 2 - 20meg partitions in
> slot 7 (Sider HD), PCT RAM disk, Transdrive 360K disk, and a Transdrive
> 1.44meg disk ALL at the same time (power hungry), from ProDOS or GS/OS 3.0.  I
> have the PCT in slot 6 for now, but can't seem to move it anywhere without
> losing some kind of functionality from my machine.  Do I need to chock it up
> to the cost of using a PCTransporter? 
> 
>                                         Laer
> 
 
I find that the PCT works very well in Slot 5.  My config is a CMS 60 Meg
hard drive in two partitions in Slot 7 (15 Meg MS-DOS hard drive), 1.5 Meg
AE GS-RAM memory., Disk II card in Slot 6, slot 3 & 4 open (but reserved
for an accelerator card if I bite the bullet before Apple gets around to
it), MDIdeas digitizer in Slot 2, and Generic Parallel card in Slot 1.
 
I have an Apple-brand Muffin fan, and find that there's no problems with
heat.  Only considerations slots 7 and memory card almost touch as do
slot 1 and PCT video.  I keep a little piece of insulator between both.
 
Any reservations:  Sure.  I'm patiently waiting for drivers so the
Finder works correctly with the PCT-controlled drives.  I generally
do not get good results with the /RAMAEPC drive.  Some programs,
including Kermit 3.85, have had occasional difficulties and crash.
I'd like to document this if I could, but thus far, I can only trace
it to P8 programs that do their own file access.
 
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