Hello to all community,
recently I decided to put some upgrades in my beloved and unexpanded Apple IIgs (ROM03) so I went to AppleSqueezer GS as accelerator and wDrive as universal storage.
About the accelerator I really hope the DMA support will be the first voice on the list of the developer but so far is a really good product.
The wdrive instead is causing me some troubles (firmware 2.00b, the last available) because the plan was to add it in the chain of the other physical drives I have (a 5.25" and 3.5") but at present it works as expected if it is the ONLY device connected to the IIgs drive port, this happens with or without the AppleSqueezer installed, in the meantime I went back to original 65C816 for a better understand of those issues. To adapt the 20 pin header of the wdrive to the DB-19 port of the IIgs I ordered the A2Heaven adapter (also on CT6502 site, the wDrive vendor, provides a direct link to this adapter) so I think I am right about my configuration.
My plan was to use the wdrive as hard drive with System 6.0.x still mantaining the usability of other two phisical drives but so far I had no luck in this, also I do not understand the virtual volumes the wdrive automatically ask to initialize when System 6 desktop is loaded, do they need to have an already present 2mg or hdv files or are created on-the-fly by the wdrive itself?
If the wdrive need to be the only device on the IIgs smarport, can I use a physical drive controller inserted in the IIgs internal slot to connect the other two drives or major conflicts are expected?
recently I decided to put some upgrades in my beloved and unexpanded Apple IIgs (ROM03) so I went to AppleSqueezer GS as accelerator and wDrive as universal storage.
About the accelerator I really hope the DMA support will be the first voice on the list of the developer but so far is a really good product.
The wdrive instead is causing me some troubles (firmware 2.00b, the last available) because the plan was to add it in the chain of the other physical drives I have (a 5.25" and 3.5") but at present it works as expected if it is the ONLY device connected to the IIgs drive port, this happens with or without the AppleSqueezer installed, in the meantime I went back to original 65C816 for a better understand of those issues. To adapt the 20 pin header of the wdrive to the DB-19 port of the IIgs I ordered the A2Heaven adapter (also on CT6502 site, the wDrive vendor, provides a direct link to this adapter) so I think I am right about my configuration.
My plan was to use the wdrive as hard drive with System 6.0.x still mantaining the usability of other two phisical drives but so far I had no luck in this, also I do not understand the virtual volumes the wdrive automatically ask to initialize when System 6 desktop is loaded, do they need to have an already present 2mg or hdv files or are created on-the-fly by the wdrive itself?
If the wdrive need to be the only device on the IIgs smarport, can I use a physical drive controller inserted in the IIgs internal slot to connect the other two drives or major conflicts are expected?
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