Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (me) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS only ProDOS 8 release Message-ID: <9007271634.AA14476@apple.com> Date: 27 Jul 90 16:24:31 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 >This sounds a little silly to me. I thought so at first two, but maybe it would be a good idea, if would be compatible with old software that check the slots and drive info from ProDOS . Such as, Copy ][+. I have a card (RANA) that will allow four drives on one card and with their modiffied DOS (3.3) you access the drives as S6,D1 S6,D2 S6 ,D3 S6,D4. If a ProDOS patch or version would come out, I could use the extra two drives for ProDOS. Also, I have A PC Transporter andthe ibm type drives on it can be used as prodos drives, but they're mmapped to different sloots, an d I have so many drives, and with only 2 drives per slot, I lose one them. I'd rather see thhhis midification done on ProDOS 8 then GS/OS, because all GS/ OS programs keep scanning ALL the drives FOUR times! whenever a load or save oc curs and that takes FOREVER! And I still use copy ][+ ALOT and it sure would be nice to have access to all my drives and access them in the slots the they REALLY are. It gets confusing figuring out which drive goes with which slot when it's plugged into another sslot.