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Date: 15 Feb 88 18:17:32 GMT
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The PC Transporter in my machine works fairly well, but as always caveat
emptor.  I am sure that I will have to buy at least one more drive now.
I was thinking about a hard drive anyway, so it's not too big a deal.
But, here's the problem.  Using my own 3.5 disk for MS-DOS and not
having a 5.25 drive for it is okay for DOS.  But, the situation is less
than satisfactory for ProDos.  As expected, Diversi-Cache, that I dream
about, no longer operates.  I'm going to ask Bill Basham for an update
if it's possible.  But, the larger problem is that the Finder no longer is
able to poll the 3.5 drive to determine that a disk has been removed and
swapped.  Thus, I cannot use that drive anymore from the Finder.  I have
yet to check whether ProSel will do the trick correctly.
 
Moreover, you cannot boot from the drive since drive 1 is the 768K Ram Disk.
I, and anyone who has a large Rom/Ram boot disk, would greatly appreciate
some enterprising individual's efforts to create a boot from slot 5, drive 2
program.  Can't be too tough.  I wrote my own in Dos 3.3 a couple of
years ago, but that's a far cry from ProDos 16, and the MLI.
 
Finally, to be directed to Ted Medin, the download function in Kermit
apparently tries to activate the slot in some unkosher way since when I
attempt to download to /ramaepc, it gives me the "UNABLE TO BOOT" message
and fries the screen.
 
More from the trenches at a later date...
 
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     Todd A. Bakal                    Knowledge is power, but it is power for
     U of M Apple User's Group          evil just as much as power for good.
     Ann Arbor, Michigan
     Tabakal@ub.cc.umich.edu              -- Bertrand Russell