On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 08:44 Will Cooke via cctalk
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> > On 02/21/2023 10:48 PM CST Eric Smith via cctalk
> wrote:
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> > Profile trivia:
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> > The firmware _inside_ the Profile is strange in that it doesn't actually
> > KNOW the size of the Profile it's installed into. At power
> On 02/21/2023 10:48 PM CST Eric Smith via cctalk
> wrote:
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> Profile trivia:
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> The firmware _inside_ the Profile is strange in that it doesn't actually
> KNOW the size of the Profile it's installed into. At power up, when the
> drive reads the home block, the drive size is stored
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:28 AM David Schmidt via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Generally, a ProFile driver that is otherwise unspecified will be 5MB
> (i.e. https://apple3.org/iiisoftware.html#drivers ). There is a
> different card (ROM?) as you found out that will matter for 5 vs.
Generally, a ProFile driver that is otherwise unspecified will be 5MB (i.e.
https://apple3.org/iiisoftware.html#drivers ). There is a different card
(ROM?) as you found out that will matter for 5 vs. 10MB variants and driver
files.
Good luck keeping that jet engine spooled up!
- David
Gotcha. I have a pretty large set of III docs if you need anything. I was
planning to put online, it's all scanned, etc. just have not gotten to it
yet :-(
BIll
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:08 AM Steven Stengel via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Thanks Bill,
> I actually got it
Thanks Bill,
I actually got it working. All of the driver floppy disks had 10MB written in
them in pen, but they worked ok with the 5MB Profile. I also had to try a
different I/O card to get it working.
Steve.
On Feb 15, 2023, at 5:18 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
I have a few
I have a few profile hardware driver/diagnostics disks but none specify the
size of the drive on the disk, What version do you have?
Bill Degnan
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:39 PM steven stengel via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The title says it all - the Apple III has an external hard
