Wondering if anyone out there is using their Fujinet in conjunction with real disk drives? I have only had my Fujinet for a couple weeks so still figuring things out. While I am loving the Fujinet I don't want to give up the abilty to use a floppy drive if possible. I have tired many combinations with my Rom1 iigs, disk2 controller, yellowstone card, I/O controller card and can't seem to come up with a combo that lets me boot from the Fujinet but still have a working disk drive. If someone is doing it I would love to hear what your setup is.
Thanks, Chris
I have a 5.25 drive attached to an Apple 5.25 I/O controller (the more recent one than the Disk ][), and the Fujinet daisy-chained to the 5.25 drive. Both work well. In fact, when I turn on the //e it boots first to the floppy, I'm sure because the Fujinet has not yet booted itself. I may connect the Fujinet to its own power.
Lest I sound like I know what I'm doing, I do not. I have also had the Fujinet for about a week, and have a LONG way to go. But the controller/drive/Fujinet combo does work.
I believe it will also work the same way with the Disk ][ controller, if you connect the floppy to Port 1 and the Fujinet to Port 2.
Maybe we can turn this thread into a good source of info. I have many questions...
I tried at one point to do exactly what you are saying, meaning daisy chaing the fujinet or my EMU after a 5.25 drive but I don't have a 19 pin connector that will fit onto the back of the 5.25 drive. I have several adapters but they all crash into the top edge of the hole the socket is recessed into. I actually bought a 19pin connector off ebay a few nights ago figuring I would need to make my own adapter. Perhaps I will try removing the case from my 5.25 drive just to give me the clearance to make the connection and see if it works.
No luck. With a disk ii card in my iigs it doesn't even seem to recognize there is a drive to boot from. Perhaps I need to do something to get it to access the disk ii card? Pulled the cover off my other 19 pin 5.25 so I could dasiy chain the Fujinet and EMU off the back. In both cases it would boot from a floppy in drive one. Once booted it didn't seem to see the Funinet or the EMU.
Yeah I'm not sure the Disk ][ works in the GS, unless you may have to configure it as drives 3 and 4, if that's possible.
I found and ordered a 5.25 floppy replacement cable, which has the deep DB19 on one end and the IDC20 male plug on the other end that goes directly into the Fujinet. The cable was pricey though as they're getting hard to find, about $35.
I think the GS Smartport "lives" in Slot 5. After it boots to floppy have you issued the pr#5 command at a BASIC prompt?
A Disk ][ Controller Card in a IIgs requires you to set whatever slot you put it into to "your card" and then whatever the normal built in functionality would be mapped to that slot is not available.
Some questions I have about the Fujinet (FN) for anyone who may want to try to answer them:
1. Am I correct that the FN will only boot from the lowest number Smartport drive image no matter what images are in the other drive slots? On the FN config screen there is only the option to press ESC to boot, and no way to select the slot. Is that correct?
2. In the same vein, Disk Slot 1 (or FN Slot 5) will boot only if there are no boot images in the Smartport slots?
3. I'm trying to telnet with the FN. I have tried a couple of terminal programs from the varous online TNFS servers, but when trying to run Pine at my ISP's shell account Pine complains that the terminal emulations are too "dumb." I thought that VT100.po, from fujinet.online/apple2 had potential, but when I run it all I get are garbage HEX characters. Any suggestions welcome.
That's it for the moment...
I got distracted, finally got a TNFS server running on a pi and have been playing around with loading files that way.