APPLIED ENGINEERING RamKeeper - Manual (Page 39)

ProDOS currently allows a total of six drive devices to
function at one time. The Smart Fort, where your ROM
Disk resides, can control up to four of the 6 total drives.
You can have four 3.5” drives daisy-chained to the Smart
Port or you can have a ROM Disk, a RAM Disk, and two
3.5 drives. The Smart Port drives are controlled separately
from drives connected to a disk drive controller in slot 6
and separately from a hard disk in 7.
The Smart Port will access the drives in the order:
Slot 5 Drive 1 (boot drive
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set up in Control Panel)
Slot 5 Drive 2
Slot 2 Drive 1
Slot 2 Drive 2.
While there are no drives actually connected to slot 2, this
is the slot that the Smart Port allocates to the 3rd and 4th
drives in the Smart Port drive chain. These are the only
slots that will be used by the Smart Port to control disk
drives. For additional information about the Smart Port,
consult your Apple IIGS User’s Guide.
Slot 2 Consideration
Slot 2 is commonly used for modems. Since the modem
doesn’t emulate a block device (disk drive), if you have a
modem in slot 2 (a DataLink for example) and slot 2 is set
to “Your Card” in the Control Panel, the Smart Port can
still use Slot 2 for disk drive allocation. If a memory card
that emulates a disk drive is in slot 2 (e.g. RamFactor),
then that card will override the Smart Port’s 3rd and 4th
drives.
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