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Page 2: ...Installation Users Guide Part Number 104061 04 REVISION C...

Page 3: ...ion that is pro ected by copyright No pan of this publication may be reproduced transcribed stored in a retrieval system translated into any language or computer language or transmitted in any form wh...

Page 4: ...D4T Sider C46 SiderFile Siderware SiderPartitioner FastTape are Copyrights of FIRST CLASS PERIPHERALS INC Apple Apple lle Apple IIGS are all trademarks and Copyrights of Apple Computer Inc ProSel Cop...

Page 5: ...NFORMATION 16 2 5 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE 17 2 6 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SUMMARY 24 2 7 PARKING THE HEADS 25 2 8 G S O S I N S T A L L A T I O N 2 5 2 9 ProDOS 16 INSTALLATION 26 2 10 ProDOS 1 1 1 INSTAL...

Page 6: ...m a t A D i s k 5 0 3 2 18 W W i p e A V o l u m e 5 1 3 2 19 C C o m p a r e D i r e c t o r i e s 5 1 3 2 20 D D i s a b l e U n u s e d D e v i c e s 5 1 4 AN OVERVIEW OF SiderFile s ProSel 53 4 1...

Page 7: ...E C A C H E X L 8 0 5 6 CLOCK DRV PROGRAM 82 5 7 C O P Y C O P Y G S 8 2 5 8 F T N D F I L E 8 5 5 9 I N F O D E S K 8 6 5 1 0 M A K E P P S Y S 8 8 5 1 1 M R F I X I T 8 9 5 1 2 P A R K H E A D S 9...

Page 8: ...IC BACKUP OF A RAM VOLUME 111 6 4 CHANGING STARTUP NAMES 1 1 2 6 5 HOW TO GET RID OF PROBLEM FILES 113 7 SPECIFICATIONS 115 7 1 TECHNICAL INFORMATION 1 1 5 7 1 1 Sider Specifications 115 8 HARDWARE AP...

Page 9: ...ur Apple IIe or Apple IIGS Most instructions are identical for both the IIe or IIGS Where there are differences there will be special sections detailing proper procedures To install your new subsystem...

Page 10: ...that goal Please inspect the materials in the Sider s shipping carton to assure you have received all the re quired items 1 Sider D4 subsystem 1 Power cord 1 Host adapter interface card 1 Owner s manu...

Page 11: ...n an open position each plastic jumper should connect with only one of the two pins WI and W2 should never be in the closed position or connecting both pins if the Sider has a warning label on the rea...

Page 12: ...3 Connect the 50 pin side of the ribbon cable to the front of the host adapter as shown in FIG 1 3 FIG 1 3 CONNECTING THE RIBBON CABLE 4 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE...

Page 13: ...E 25 PIN CONNECTOR 5 To install the host adapter identify slot 7 The farthest standard slot from the power supply We recommend this slot because it is not normally used for other expansion cards such...

Page 14: ...he top rear of the Sider D4 to assure the jumper is positioned over the HO position as shown in FIG 1 6 If it is not use the needle nose pliers to move the jumper to the proper position FIG 1 6 REAR P...

Page 15: ...ecter you installed on the rear of the computer Attach the other end to either one of the two 25 pin connectors on the rear of the Sider FIG 1 8 CONNECTING THE SIDER 9 Locate the Sider s terminator pl...

Page 16: ...d to your power strip or surge protector equipment We recommend surge protecting all your computer equipment to lessen the damaging effects of irregularities in your community s power source NOTES 8 I...

Page 17: ...le s mother board 6 Check the device address jumpers 7 Connect data I O cable to the rear of computer 8 Connect data I O cable to the rear of Sider 9 Connect terminator to the rear of Sider 10 Insert...

Page 18: ...NOTES 10 HARDWARE INSTRUCTIONS SUMMARY...

Page 19: ...also intelligent When you are done with an application and exit from it the Program Selector menu automatically reloads and allows you to select your next operation Information pertaining to the Progr...

Page 20: ...connectors are securely at tached then power on your Apple and Sider The computer will load the SiderFile Program Selector from the hard disk and its menu will appear To learn more about SiderFile re...

Page 21: ...these steps 1 Turn on the Sider and your computer After a moment the SiderFile Program Selector menu will appear Information about this menu is contained in section 4 2 of this manual 2 Use the arrow...

Page 22: ...ur Sider s host adapt er card is installed in Normally this would be 7 5 Enter the partition volume number to be analyzed at the DRIVE prompt This would be 1 FIG 2 3 MR FIXIT INPUT SCREEN 6 Next speci...

Page 23: ...39 072 blocks each The counter will increment until it reaches that figure 10 When the test completes you will be prompted whether you want to run MR FIXIT again Enter a Y 11 Run MR FIXIT a second ti...

Page 24: ...ell as installed on the hard drive One is a 5 1 4 inch 140kb double sided flippy the other is a 3 1 2 inch floppy Both diskettes contain exactly the same programs We provides each type to make install...

Page 25: ...r APPLE lle owners and one for APPLE IIGS owners The first Section will cover the APPLE IIGS installation APPLE IIGS Installation 1 Hold down the OPTION key on the Apple IIGS keyboard and while doing...

Page 26: ...S screen displayed use the up down arrow keys to move the highlighter to the SLOT 7 indicator Use the right left arrow keys to toggle the assignment of SLOT 7 to read YOUR CARD FIG 2 6 APPLE S SLOTS S...

Page 27: ...EL which will cause the system to boot from the Sider diskette 3b When the Sider software is booted the screen will display the Sider welcome message and be waiting for your instruc tions to continue...

Page 28: ...will cause the software to abort If this happens simply rerun the D4MAT SYSTEM program or restart the Apple 5 The next screen will prompt you to enter the slot number in FIG 2 7 INSTALLATION SCREEN w...

Page 29: ...NAME ProDOS VOLUMES You will be prompted whether to proceed using the choices you have made Type YES and press return 7 The program gives you one last chance to exit the format se quence Pressing ret...

Page 30: ...er the volume name where the utilities will be copied to The default will be the first partition on the Sider Enter your response or simply press return to accept the default and con tinue 10 Next you...

Page 31: ...rFile software installation process The SiderFile program selection menu will appear each time you start your system If you would rather use Apple s ProDOS directly see the installation instructions o...

Page 32: ...nd files For infor mation about the SiderFile package of utilities how to use them and how they can help you see the ProSel and SiderFile sections of this manual We suggest studying your APPLE ProDOS...

Page 33: ...2 drive you will be required to interchange the floppies many times 1 Place the GS OS SYSTEM DISK into your first 3 1 2 inch floppy drive If you have a second 3 1 2 floppy place a copy of die GS OS S...

Page 34: ...ied to the Sider HARD1 volume 6 When the copy process completes select QUIT to return to the OS OS desk top Use the CONTROL OPEN APPLE RESET keys to reboot the computer and Sider The GS OS desk top sh...

Page 35: ...IVE option and press return When prompted WHERE IS YOUR DESTINA TION DISK enter the slot and drive number of the Sider drive usually slot 7 drive 1 and then press return 7 The screen will prompt you f...

Page 36: ...re now ready to copy the ProDOS files to the Sider 3 The COPY FILES screen will prompt you to enter path names for the files you want to copy to the Sider For the source pathname you should simply ent...

Page 37: ...Sel to a subdirectory or delete it from the hard drive At this point the Sider is ready to have your various application programs copied to it Refer to the installation instructions in your applicatio...

Page 38: ...NOTES 30 ProDOS 1 1 1 INSTALLATION...

Page 39: ...ust have an Apple IIGS or an Apple lie with the enhanced mousetext ROMS Below is a list of the items in the SiderFile menus FIRST MENU Q Quit X Catalog C Copy files T Type flies L Lock files U Unlock...

Page 40: ...s on the screen Normally typing will overwrite exist ing text To use moving to the desired loca tion and hold down the OPEN APPLE key and type The new text will be inserted into the ex iting text Clos...

Page 41: ...d for two functions First TAB will toggle you back and forth between the two menus Second when in an input field TAB will move the cursor to the right most position ESC Used to exit from a utility to...

Page 42: ...will be displayed At the default you can do the following Press return to display the directory of the default pathname listed Type in a new pathname Use any of the SiderFile function keys tab del etc...

Page 43: ...athname a listing of the files in the source directory will display The following is a summary of methods used to select files to be copied HOW TO SELECT FILES TO BE COPIED CONTROL A Typing a A will c...

Page 44: ...move the highlighter to the files you want copied and select them with the space bar mouse When ready to copy press RETURN If you decide not to copy any files press ESCAPE to return to the SiderFile m...

Page 45: ...copy the same group of files to another volume with the same directory name If you press DELETE at this point the delete routine will re display your selections If you press RETURN the original files...

Page 46: ...f the file will display If the file is not a data file the contents will display but will be unreadable CONTROL P This will cause the listing of the file to be sent AP to the printer instead of the sc...

Page 47: ...e all displayed files to be A selected This will include files in any lower subdirectories displayed If you have selected some files manually pressing AA will cause all currently selected files to be...

Page 48: ...all files in the current A directory to be selected This will include files in any lower subdirectories displayed If you have selected some files manually pressing A will cause all currently selected...

Page 49: ...OL A Typing a A will cause all files to be selected A This will include files in any subdirectories displayed If you have selected some files manually pressing A will cause all currently selected file...

Page 50: ...yed at the bottom of the screen and can be changed from the keyboard In order to change a VOLUME name you must select some file any file in the volume as if you wanted to rename it When the file s nam...

Page 51: ...m Pressing RETURN will attempt the un delete It might be helpful to describe the principle EXHUME works on When a file is deleted from a disk it really isn t What is deleted is part of the file s name...

Page 52: ...es are selected RETURN If a bad block is found in the current file the verify will pause RETURN will cause the verify to continue in the current file HOW TO USE Enter the pathname where the file s you...

Page 53: ...ly Within A Type You can also use the Open Apple key in conjunction with arrow keys to move file names around by hand The mouse button can be used in place of the open Apple key to move files around t...

Page 54: ...file s existing date will display you will be allowed to modify it You do not have to type the dashes or colon shown in the date any non alpha numeric character such as a space will do You must type t...

Page 55: ...to use When prompted for the name of the directory to be created enter the full pathname Typing an invalid pathname will result in an error and will cause the program to terminate and return to the Si...

Page 56: ...his refers to the questions the program asks dwing such open tions as copying or verifying files These prompts are a safeguard to notify you that files are about to be over written or whole subdirecto...

Page 57: ...to the destination This is very fast and can move whole direc tones How to use You will be prompted for the pathname of where the files to be moved are currently located Typein the path or use the Si...

Page 58: ...ted or files recovered with the EX HUME function How to use Select FORMAT A DISK from the menu You will be asked for the slot and drive number of the disk you want formatted Next you will be prompted...

Page 59: ...ries not the contents of the files This function will look at two directories It will list in one column the files which are in the first directory but not in the second and in the second column the f...

Page 60: ...NOTES 52 SIDERFILE FUNCTIONS...

Page 61: ...tand its capabilities to benefit from its most basic features One of SiderFile s most valuable feature is its ability to simplify ProDOS commands Training is a costly and time consuming process The Si...

Page 62: ...step procedure for loading the needed files 1 Turn on your Apple computer and Sider hard drive Boot the SIDER diskette called FLOPPY 2 The Sider formatter program will load and its initial screen will...

Page 63: ...the copying is complete press return and the Program Selector menu will display This will establish the files PROSEL SYS TEM PROSEL and BASIC SYSTEM on the root directory of the sped tied volume If yo...

Page 64: ...is option is used to copy disks It will prompt you for the source and destination slot and drive number for the information being copied Option 5 This will return you to the start of the SiderFile pac...

Page 65: ...cations already set up These items are supplied to demonstrate the sys tem You will probably want to change them later Use the arrow keys mouse to highlight and select the menu item you want to run Ty...

Page 66: ...program files ADD This is used to add items to the program selec tor menu This includes defining prefix path name and startup information SAVE This saves any changes you have made while in the editor...

Page 67: ...emove the entry from the menu It will not remove the application program or files it called up from the drive Use ESCAPE if you entered delete mode by mis take Once deleted an entry must be ADDed to b...

Page 68: ...x you would enter both the root directory and the appropriate sub directory s as follows EXAMPLE Prefix HARD1 PROGRAMS root 1 sub directory or Prefix HARD2 ACCNT COST root 2 sub dIrectorIes The editor...

Page 69: ...name then when selected from the menu the program selector will search the directory specified in the PREFIX field All the SYS files in that directory are then displayed and you can use the mouse or m...

Page 70: ...xecuted as usual SAVE This saves the edited information as you have changed it under the title XXX PROSEL where XXX represents the name of the volume where the program selector is stored If you make c...

Page 71: ...perly The only remedy is to use the 80 column version REMARKS Some application programs may not support the ProDOS quit protocol Apple s own CONVERT is such a program If like CONVERT they allow quitti...

Page 72: ...ves in slots 1 or 2 the keys 8 and 9 are translated to slots 1 2 4 4 2 Screen Saver Function If the program selector menu has been on the screen for more than 15 minutes with no activity ProSel will c...

Page 73: ...SiderFile package can also run ProDOS 16 application programs programs of file type B3 or S 16 In order for this to work the machine must be booted into ProDOS 16 from a boot disk with Apple s START...

Page 74: ...NOTES 66 PROSEL ON THE APPLE IIGS...

Page 75: ...to understand them all to use your Sider 5 1 BACKUP PURPOSE The BACKUP program is used to backup the Sider s volumes to your floppies SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS It will work with 5 1 4 inch floppies 3 1 2...

Page 76: ...the specified device and display it example HARD1 Next specify the destination slot and drive The Program can use both floppy drives simple enter the assignment of the first Select whether to use the...

Page 77: ...shown at the bottom of the screen in inverse You can choose to ignore this error and continue the backup process Make a note of the problem block if you do this That block will not be transferred cor...

Page 78: ...is most easily done by running the MODIFY BACK UP program If done correctly selecting these applications will automatically backup restore the RAM disk to from the file 5 1 2 BackIng Up To Slot 5 or 2...

Page 79: ...ed to volumes that have no used blocks above 10MB It is also limited to 255 tree files BEACH COMBER 20 is for twenty megabyte drives and re quires a RAM volume with 512 or more contiguous blocks i e 2...

Page 80: ...from a minute to more than an hour About 5 to 12 minutes per megabyte is typical for the first run Later runs may take much less depending on what areas of the disk have been changed and how extensiv...

Page 81: ...counts trees on pass 0 and will exit without harm if the 255 limit exceeded First pass reads data from the disk errors at this phase will not affect disk contents The second pass relocates the direct...

Page 82: ...relocates tree files This refers to the files themselves not to their directory entries which will not be changed 74 BEACH COMBER...

Page 83: ...creen displays the individual bytes of a data block A second block is loaded but not displayed Pressing will toggle between the two blocks Block Warden has two modes READ WRITE R W and EDIT When first...

Page 84: ...a block from one disk to another Subsequent reads however will be made to the new disk P refix The P command allows you to specify the prefix This is commonly used with the F and I commands but it can...

Page 85: ...e used The disassembly supports the whole 65816 opcode set The M and X flags at tempt to follow the program logic as in the Merlin pro assembler At the start of each page these flags can be reset by s...

Page 86: ...TAB The TAB key toggles between hex and ascii editing modes You can tell what the current mode is by seeing where the cursor is placed In ascii editing mode the high bit of a typed character will be o...

Page 87: ...earched The ascii search is not sensitive to the high bit of characters nor is it case sensi tive Thus for example a search siring of Junk will find both JUNK and junk You can cancel a search in progr...

Page 88: ...cached the default is the device the program was run from It then asks for the slot and drive assignment of the RAM volume If the RAM volume is suitable it locks out a range of blocks on the volume fo...

Page 89: ...OT do this with removable media If the RAM volume being used gets disconnected the SYSTEM DEATH message INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND RESTART ERR OF displays Some versions of Appleworks disconnect devices in...

Page 90: ...the problem but the year still had to be set by hand The present driver knows the year and it will work up to 1992 It will work beyond that by a simple modification To use this driver just boot into P...

Page 91: ...le to do the read or write the program will tell you the error and ask if you want to continue If the error is on the destination disk we recommend using a different disk If you want to continue anywa...

Page 92: ...is if you are copying a floppy to a Unidisk but not if you are copy ing a floppy to the Apple memory card with a view to copying that back out to other floppies If you do not select this option then t...

Page 93: ...I formats Option for printer T Types the file to the screen Control characters may be inverse video and may not print Option for printer L Works with Basic files Produces formatted listing of programs...

Page 94: ...ntain BASIC SYSTEM FIND FILE can also find files containing a specified text string 5 9 INFO DESK PURPOSE This program will print the entire tree structure of a selected Sider volume The output can be...

Page 95: ...nted to by the master index block and their associated data blocks The information provided by this mode can be invaluable if you should ever have to attempt a repair by a disk zap program 3 File usag...

Page 96: ...if not already done 2 Copy the file MAKE PPSYS to the directory containing a Pinpoint modified version of BASIC SYSTEM and set the prefix to that directory 3 Type CREATE PPSYS TSYS 4 Type BLOAD MAKE...

Page 97: ...ttempts to reconstruct the main directory and a Bad blocks mode which scans for bad blocks and if desired places them in a bad block file The Fix and Main directory modes are very dangerous and can ch...

Page 98: ...hat the situation cannot be handled or the damage is suchthat the supposition is that the remaining data is invalid Some block read write errors cannot be handled and will result in termination of the...

Page 99: ...give a few particulars along the way Although the routine can resurrect most sub directory pointers it cannot do anything for standard non sub directory files in the main directory While this routine...

Page 100: ...used on a disk that has been inadvertently wiped by SiderFile or deleted by COPY or a large volume that has been formatted by filer i e as long as the disk was not physically formatted To do this firs...

Page 101: ...n before turning either the Apple or the Sider off 5 13 PASSWORD PROTECTION PURPOSE To restrict access to information on a drive HOW TO USE The program PASSWORD can be used to give a light password pr...

Page 102: ...to reboot Passwords are not case sensitive It is easy to change the password Just hold the open apple key down when you type the RETURN at the end of inputting the current password and the program wil...

Page 103: ...pilcation to load properly 5 16 PROSEL CYCLER PURPOSE This utility allows you to have more than one version of SiderFile s ProSel utilities on your hard drive This may be helpful if you use the same h...

Page 104: ...ll get a menu showing all options and can select the version of ProSel you want to go to next instead of cycling through all ver sions This is convenient if you use more than 3 or 4 versions The CYCLE...

Page 105: ...me with the arrow keys Note that moving a name one position swaps it with the one it is moved onto Thus it is easiest to move it down to an empty area before trying to move it to another column Editin...

Page 106: ...as well as the SYS file names You can select a sub directory then its sub directories and SYS tiles will be displayed and so on You can press TAB to switch the highlighted name between the SYS and DI...

Page 107: ...ny of Apple s standard auxiliary 64k space This decreases the possibility of compatibility problems when using programs which use an auxiliary memory There are no conflicts with double hires graphics...

Page 108: ...new RAM drive use the SiderFile utility to copy alt the tiles back into RAM then use BACKUP to write a new backup file or backup disks If this is not feasible then continue to use the old versions of...

Page 109: ...u can test these programs using only scratch floppies to see how they work before you commit yourself to using them on hard disk To do this just specify one of the floppy drives as the original and th...

Page 110: ...or the pathname of the file you want to recover This name MUST NOT include the volume name Thus if you should want to recover HARD1 APPLEWORKS LETTER what you type here must be APPLEWORKS LETTER Then...

Page 111: ...2 to HARD2 If you backup from drive 1 HARD I arid then try to restore to drive 2 HARD2 you will get an error message reading Incorrect volume size name If the volume size is correct see below then yo...

Page 112: ...this allows a moderate increase in the size of the volume If you use RESTORE on a volume you must be sure to use the same RAM driver for restoration as for the back up and an increase in volume size...

Page 113: ...t does not find any drives to remove then it rebuilds the queue Thus if you run this a second time it will re enable all disk drives This program can be most useful with ProSel on a Sider If you are n...

Page 114: ...NOTES 106 SCAVENGE...

Page 115: ...ecify RAM as the destination volume Enter the other infor mation as appropriate to your configuration This method will install all of the complete SiderFile package including the Pro Sel utilities MET...

Page 116: ...menu items which desig nate HARD1 as the volume to return to after running a program When your RAM volume is setup the way you want it proceed with the following steps 1 Run the BACKUP program from th...

Page 117: ...se To test the procedure turn your computer off and reboot When re booted the RESTORE program will prompt you for a source slot If not it may be necessary to change lines 510 and 520 of the RAM RESTOR...

Page 118: ...d use the SiderFile utility to copy RAM DRV to the directory UTIL on your boot up disk 3 Skip if you have an Apple memory card or clone Use BLOCK WARDEN to place a STARTUP name of UTIL RESTORE in the...

Page 119: ...reated If not then you missed some detail Check the names you have given for various files and make sure the files are really where they will be looked for This provision will just ignore file specifi...

Page 120: ...e to simplify entering STARTUP names in SYS files To change the default STARTUP file name in a SYS file follow these steps 1 In R W mode type F to follow a file and specify the file name of the SYS fi...

Page 121: ...e written to disk To delete a file which is currently not the last one on the list you must first move it to the end using the arrow keys with Open Apple and then press Open Apple DELETE This only get...

Page 122: ...NOTES 114 HOW TO GET RID OF PROBLEM FILES...

Page 123: ...ches Weight 11 0 pounds Source 110 126 vlts factory config Line Frequency 50 60 1 2 Power Consumption 40 watts Subsystem Characteristics The following section provides additional specification for the...

Page 124: ...NOTES 116 SPECIFICATIONS...

Page 125: ...illustrations of various Sider host adapters locate yours and set the option jumpers as indicated Many versions other the Apple host adapter have been manufactured Some may have what is called a trac...

Page 126: ...r with no label daisy chained to Sider with warning label Both Wi and W2 jumper must be off A host adapter 103916 revision H03 OR H04 setup as follows Sider with no warning label Jumpers should be on...

Page 127: ...are set for a Sider without a warning label 5 volts of power will travel from the Sider to the Apple s mother board This may cause problems with other boards in the system cause the Apple to appear O...

Page 128: ...NOTES 120 HOST ADAPTER CONFIGURATION...

Page 129: ...e which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference in a residential installation However there are no guarantees that interference will not occur in a particular installat...

Page 130: ...rect incidental or consequential damages lost profits costs or expenses except as set forth in this policy which may be modified or amended only by written contract IN WARRANTY REPAIR FIRST CLASS PERI...

Page 131: ...PHERALS 2 the RGA number is written in large 3 inch letters on the original shipping container 3 all accessories are included and 4j all the aforementioned instructions have been met FIRST CLASS PERIP...

Page 132: ...r In the rare event all required accessories are not included FIRST CLASS PERIPHERALS will repair or replace only those parts which were received REPAIR WARRANTY FIRST CLASS PERIPHERALS warrants any o...

Page 133: ...progressive loading of computer programs that perform self diagnostics and search for other utility operating system and application programs during start up With these programs the computer pulls its...

Page 134: ...stination Slot The expansion slot insidea computer containing the expan sion card to which or through which data is copied trans ferred or altered Detailing The process of adjusting the size of the vo...

Page 135: ...information recorded as a unit on a storage medium File Name A name under which a file is stored Fixed Disk In the microcomputer world this term is synonymous with Winchester disk drive or hard disk d...

Page 136: ...r programs that direct the operations of a computer system particularly relating to disk drives data storage and peripheral devices Partition A Set of cylinders on a physical drive usually a fixed dis...

Page 137: ...The search for and circumvention of defects on a fixed disk s surface during the format sequence Subdirectory A secondary ProDOS file that contains a list of additional subdirectories or file names a...

Page 138: ...onfiguration Volume Volume represents two concepts A physical drive s total available disk space is referred to as volume also sub divided areas of logical drive or partition are referred to as volume...

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