Johnnya101
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You could. Whenever you get the money, save your self hours and get a floppy emu! HD emulation, floppy emulation it's awesome.
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Yeah that is what I was thinking. I figure as much time as I spend on these machines, and also considering how many I use and for which data transfer is virtually impossible due to the 800k limitation, maybe I ought to just save money and cough up the dough.You could. Whenever you get the money, save your self hours and get a floppy emu! HD emulation, floppy emulation it's awesome.
Yeah I actually was able to convert them to DiskCopy format by loading them up as disk drives in Basilisk and then generating DiskCopy disk images from them there.Yes, the LCIII works perfectly for writing 800k disks, although you need them in DiskCopy format (I don't think there are any 68k utilities for writing 2MG files to disk). That's how I did it back in the day before ADTPro and fancy floppy emulators. From a performance standpoint, the SCSI card is going to be MUCH faster then the FloppyEmu running in SmartPort mode on a IIgs.
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That's exactly what I tried, haha. I used the Asante Localtalk to Ethernet bridge and connected it to a raspberry pi configured with a2server to netboot. I even connected to it with a powerbook 3400c and was able to access the file server. I then used the Powerbook 3400c as a localtalk to ethernet bridge just to make sure that it wasn't a problem between the iigs and asantetalk, still no go. It just goes to "check startup disk" and there is no error or anything or message to indicate that it even tried to boot over appletalk.If you have a Localtalk-to-Ethernet bridge, you could try A2SERVER's built in netbooting.
http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/
I don't have any experience setting up AppleShare 3.0 to netboot Apple IIs.
We have a 3d printer at work. I wish he would have been nice and just uploaded the model so that I can print it myself... I suppose I could go through the trouble of learning CAD so that I can design the gear myself, but that's a pretty big time investment.Yeah I've got a 3d printer. Those cost at most 5 cents each...
But hey when your pretty much the only choice...
Yep... It's a ROM 01 and that's exactly what I did. Slot 2 to "Your Card" and plugged into the modem port. No go. It just goes straight to "Check startup disk."If its a ROM 01
-Set Slot 7 to "Appletalk"
-Set Slot 1 or 2 to "Your Card", connect your LocalTalk network to the corresponding port.
-Set boot to "Appletalk"
ROM 3
-Set Slot 1 or 2 to "Appletalk", connect your LocalTalk network to the corresponding port.
-Set boot to "Appletalk"
If you aren't implementing/supporting the SCSI disconnect/reconnect feature then the controller really doesn't need an ID for itself.Good to know that the v5 works with the RamFAST. That card can be a pain with its non-standard SCSI implimentation (card doesn't take a SCSI ID for itself on the bus).
005- Will a SCSI-2 hard drive work with an Apple 2 system?
Usually, yes. I'm on my second Quantum drive that is described as "SCSI- 2".
There is a major caveat to this answer. Some newer drives require a host which implements the arbitration phase of the SCSI communication dialogue. The RamFAST doesn't do this, and as a result there are some drives that cannot be used with a RamFAST SCSI card. A notable example is the Quantum Fireball series. However; the Trailblazer and all older Quantum models work fine.