Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!SNYBUFVA.BITNET!WAXMONRW From: WAXMONRW@SNYBUFVA.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Help Configuring a PCT Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 90 01:00:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 56 I have version 2.0. I am operating on a ROM3GS with an Apple 3.5 drive connected to the PCT in Slot 7. The Apple 5.25 drive is connected to the GS which is how I boot. I seem to have worked something out. I have assigned the Apple 3.5 drive to be the PCT's drive A and the Apple 5.25 to be the PCT's drive B. I have set drive C to be Prodos slot 6, drive 1 which is the Apple's /Ram5. I have no Drive D but I do have a second Ram drive as D. I placed a "device= vdkisk.sys in my config.sys and in the root of my MSDOS boot disk; I presently am working with MS-DOS 3.28 from Zenith. To get the C drive as a ram drive, I have to format it. After I format it, I get something like 332K on Drive C. Since I use the default values in the device=vdisk.sys, that Ram disk (Drive E) is about 62K. If if turn the GS off (turn off the power strip) and reboot into the PCT, I loose the Ram Disk on Drive C; I have to reformat it. Sometimes the format command does not seem to work and I get MSDOS's Retry, Abort Ignore message. If I hit I, for ignore, the format comes to life, I can and do format Drive C and bingo, the C drive is now a live Ram disk with the above mentioned 332 K. Apparently I have to format the C drive each time I restart the GS; that is not necessary if I reboot the PCT from its control panel. !!!Correction. In paragraph one I meant to say I set drive C to be ProDos slot 5 - NOT 6!!! Sorry about that. Drive C is set to the ProDos Slot 6 Drive 1 (1, not 2 as in the GS). I just acquired a copy of MSDOS 3.3 plus; again a Zenith version. That Dos does not seem to work correctly; to be explicit, I cannot get it to format a system disk with, for example, Format a:/s. It will format a disk when I do not attach the /s switch. Does this version of MS-DOS for Zenith have a new switch to format a system disk; I would doubt that? The one thing that surprises me most is that I am able to access my Apple 3.5 disk and run ProDos applications even though that drive is plugged directly into the PCT. I have to boot a 5.25 boot disk that contains an old version of the utility program from CopyIIplus. I have patched the ProDos on that disk with Squirt. When I exit CopyIIPlus, the Squirt Quit Code takes effect and it identifies my available disks; one of those is Hard1, the Apple 3.5 disk on which I have installed Pro-Sel 8 and most of my most used programs, including Point-to-Point. Right now, I am connected to a VAX via Point-to-Point while the Apple 3.5 disk is plugged into the PCT. I should qualify the above by saying that this works most of the time; last night, with the same setup, Squirt would not identify Hard1 when I exited CopyIIPlus. In general, I seem to get some erratic (inconsistent) results with the PCT. I am not sure if that is the PCT (or its software) or I who am causing the inconsistensies. But it is mystifying. Sorry, to run on so long but you are my only substantial comment. I appreciate the response. Any comments would be appreciated. Ray Waxmonsky (WAXMONRW@SNYBUFVA)