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Notes to Specific Apple Computer Models
The general operation of the CFFA3000 is the same on any Apple II model, but make note of the
following differences.
Apple II, Apple II+, Unenhanced Apple //e
To boot from CFFA3000 on power-
up, you must go to ―Other Settings‖ in the menu and set
"Autoboot Older Apples" to Yes. (ProDOS 2.0 requires an enhanced //e or later, and the older
versions of ProDOS do not use SmartPort.) Notes:
ProDOS will be able to see at least the first two "SmartPort" drives. If the CFFA3000 is in slot 5
or 6, then two additional drives can appear in slot 1 or 2.
On an Apple II and Apple II+ machines, use these keys in the menus:
− A/Z or Ctrl-K/Ctrl-J to move up and down when navigating menus
− Ctrl-I (the letter ―i‖, not the number 1) is a substitute for the Tab key - it rotates through
options on the disk assignment screens
− Ctrl-D and the minus key (-) are substitute for the Delete key for removing/unmounting disk
images on the disk assignment screens
− Ctrl-B will boot the machine like Ctrl-OpenApple-Reset.
Apple II
GS
CFFA3000 DIP switch 7 should be set to ON/DOWN for operation in an Apple II
GS
.
In order to have the CFFA30
00 act as a virtual Disk II, be sure to set the Disk II slot to ―Your card‖ in
the II
GS
control panel. The physical CFFA3000 card will also need to be in a slot that has that
setting.
Slot 7 is set to ―Your card‖ by default; the rest are not.
There is a CDA for convenient access to the CFFA3000 menus. Use Ctrl-OpenApple-Esc and
choose
―
CFFA3000 (Slot N)
―
from the list of CDAs. The CDA gets installed automatically when
you boot from the CFFA3000, or when you boot from another slot and then access CFFA3000 block
device (GS/OS and ProDOS 8 v1.9 and later does this at boot time). When you boot GS/OS, there is
a time early in the boot process when the CDA is not available (GS/OS empties the CDA list, and
CFFA3000 re-installs the CDA later in the boot sequence).
There is no need or use for a GS/OS loaded driver for the CFFA3000.
The standard Disk II driver discovers the virtual Disk II and uses it.
The standard "generated driver" discovers the CFFA3000's block devices and uses Extended
SmartPort calls to read and write blocks.
Slot limitations: in an Apple II
GS
, the virtual Disk II slot must be set to 4, 5, 6, 7, or None. The same
restriction applies to a real Disk II card, because a GS monitors the Disk II motor-on soft switches
only for those slots, and it automatically throttles to 1 MHz when a motor is on. The CFFA3000 itself
can occupy slot 1 or 2 with no trouble.
Apple ///
CFFA3000 DIP switches 4 and 7 should be set to ON/DOWN for operation in an Apple ///.
