The comp.sys.apple2 Usenet newsgroup Apple II FAQs originate from the Ground Apple II archive. Administrator: Steve Nelson Csa2 FAQs-on-Ground resource file: R028LCCARD.TXT Apple IIe Card for the Macintosh LC Questions & Answers Note: To correctly view tables and diagrams on a super-res display, use a mono-spaced Font such as CoPilot or PCMononspaced. ____________________________ Apple IIe Card for the Macintosh LC -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by Phil Beesley This document is maintained by Phil Beesley (beesley@mandrake.demon.co.uk) to whom all corrections, additions and queries should be addressed. This text version of the FAQ can be freely distributed so long as this notice is retained. An HTML version of this FAQ is maintained at http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/lc_card_faq.html. Document date: 17 February 2002 Section A - BASICS A1 - What is the Apple IIe card for the Macintosh LC? A2 - Which Macintosh models and system software are supported? A3 - Is Macintosh System 6 supported? A4 - What is in the Apple IIe card kit? A5 - What are the part numbers for the bits? A6 - I have the card and Y-cable. What else do I need? Section B - DISK DRIVES B1 - Which types of external disk drives are supported? B2 - Does the card work without the Y-cable? B3 - Can I use the Mac's built-in 3.5" drive? B4 - Can I use ProDOS partitions on hard drives? B5 - Can I create ProDOS partitions on an external Zip disk? B6 - How do I create ProDOS hard disk partitions? Section C - RESOURCES C1 - Where can I buy the Apple IIe card? C2 - Where can I obtain the IIe card software? C3 - Where can I obtain the manual? C4 - Can I make my own Y-cable? C5 - Where can I find photos of the IIe card? Section D - USING THE CARD D1 - How do I get started in the Apple IIe environment? D2 - Can I access AppleShare servers and AppleTalk printers? D3 - Can I boot the IIe card from a file server? D4 - How can I use ethernet on my Mac LC series computer? Section A - BASICS A1 - What is the Apple IIe card for the Macintosh LC? The IIe card creates a multi-featured Apple IIe inside an LC series Macintosh. The hardware emulates many of the expansion cards that you would install in a bare IIe, including 3.5" and 5.25" external drives, mouse, memory, 80 column mono or colour display, clock, serial printer and modem , SCSI hard drive and AppleShare fileserver. The card plugs into the PDS slot in many of the LC series Macintoshes but not all models and system software combinations are supported. You may not add real Apple II expansion cards because the IIe card does not have real expansion slots. A2 - Which Macintosh models and system software are supported? Macs which have an LC-compatible PDS slot AND which support 24-bit memory addressing can use the card. System 7.0 through to System 7.5.5 support both 24- and 32-bit addressing on suitable Macintosh models; from System 7.6 onwards, Macintosh system software does not support 24-bit addressing. To enable 24-bit addressing, use the Macintosh Memory control panel. Apple's Tech Info Library article 8458 lists the following models as IIe card compatible: LC, Colour Classic, LC II, LC III, LC 475, LC 520, LC 550, LC 575, Quadra 605, Performa 4XX, Performa 55X, Performa 56X, Performa 57X. The Colour Classic II is not listed in Apple's article but *may* work. No other model will work. A3 - Is Macintosh System 6 supported? Yes, you should be able to use System 6.0.8 on the original LC. The "unofficial" release 6.0.8L may also work with the LCII and Colour Classic. Apart from the original LC, however, the official minimum system version for these Macs is 7.0 or higher. A4 - What is in the Apple IIe card kit? LC-compatible PDS card Y-cable to support external disk drives and joystick manual -- "Apple IIe Card Owner's Guide" software -- "Apple IIe Startup Disk" A5 - What are the part numbers for the bits? complete package M0444LL/A cable 590-0703-A original software package 914-0403-A IIe card itself 820-0444-A original manual 030-5001-A "final" manual 030-1930-A A6 - I have the card and Y-cable. What else do I need? optional platinum 5.25 disk drive (A9M0107) optional white Unidisk 3.5" drive (A2M2053) optional external SCSI hard disk Joystick port device Section B - DISK DRIVES B1 - Which types of external disk drives are supported? Only the two drives listed in question A6 will work with the LC card. This is explained in Apple's Tech Info Library article 8807. If the Unidisk 3.5" and platinum 5.25" drives are used together, hookup the 3.5" drive first to the Y-cable. B2 - Does the card work without the Y-cable? Yes, but obviously you cannot use an external disk drive or joystick. B3 - Can I use the Mac's built-in 3.5" drive? The built-in drive can be mapped as a Smartport device on Slot 5. 800Kb and 1.4Mb ProDOS formats are supported. The original LC was optionally available with two 3.5" drives (ie no internal SCSI hard disk) and both drives can be accessed by the IIe card. All other Macs in the LC family only support one floppy drive. Note that some copy protected software will not work from the built-in drive and may require a genuine Unidisk 3.5" drive. B4 - Can I use ProDOS partitions on hard drives? You can create a large number of ProDOS partitions on a SCSI hard disk but only four can be mapped at any time as Smartport devices. When you start the Macintosh, the ProDOS file system extension will mount the hard disk partitions on the Mac desktop. Files can be dragged between Mac and ProDOS volumes in the normal way to copy them. When you start the IIe card software, ProDOS partitions are unmounted from the Mac desktop until you quit using the IIe card. This prevents you from accessing files simultaneously from Mac and Apple IIe environments. B5 - Can I use ProDOS partitions on an external Zip disk? The author has not tested this. B6 - How do I create ProDOS hard disk partitions? If you use "standard" utilities, you must completely reformat the hard disk to create ProDOS partitions. Recent third-party utilities such as "FWB Hard Disk Tools" *may* allow partitions to be changed without completely formatting the disk. The version of "Apple HD SC Setup" supplied on the "Apple IIe Startup Disk" will only work with Apple brand hard disks. A patch utility is available which modifies "Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5" to work with non-Apple disks. Information on the patch can be found at http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html . [Csa2 FAQS rev055: Added from http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html ] Open HD SC Setup 7.3.5 within ResEdit 2.1.3 Open the resource called "wfwr" ID 67. Change this byte from "00" to "FF". Save HD SC Setup 7.3.5 and close ResEdit 2.1.3 The "Apple IIe Startup Disk" contains System 6.0.8 in order to boot an original LC Mac. This disk will not work with later versions of the LC family. You only need to boot from the software installation disk to format/partition the LC series hard disk. The Apple IIe card support software can be installed after booting the Mac from any startup disk. Section C - RESOURCES C1 - Where can I buy the Apple IIe card? The card was launched in 1991 but has been discontinued for several years. You should be able to buy the card second hand for a few dollars in the US but the card is more unusual and more expensive in other countries. Avoid buying a card which does not include the Y-cable. C2 - Where can I obtain the IIe card software? The final version of the "Apple IIe Startup Disk" is 2.2.x. Version 2.2.1 of the complete software kit can be downloaded as Apple_IIe_Card_2.2.1.sea.bin from ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Apple_II/For_Macintosh/ A slightly later version of the "Apple II Startup" application is available as IIe_Startup_2.2.2d1.sea.bin . C3 - Where can I obtain the manual for the card and software? Two versions of the manual can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat PDF format from the support area on Apple's web site but the location seems to change periodically. Try performing a search for "IIe card" in the manuals section. For use with version 2.2.1 of the software, you require the manual called "0301930AppleIIeCrd2.1.pdf". C4 - Can I make my own Y-cable? Possibly. The connector at the IIe card end uses an unusual connector (3 rows of pins, 26 pins in total). Connectors in the right hand column are those on the IIe card; for pin numbering, please see this image file. The connector is shown as viewed from the back of the Mac LC. Note: these pinouts have not been tested and you use this information at your own risk. Joystick (9 pin) to IIe card connector 01 01 02 21 03 02 04 20 05 12 06 19 07 10 08 03 09 11 Disk drive (19 pin) to IIe card connector 01 04 02 04 03 13 04 14 05 no connection 06 05 07 22 08 23 09 06 10 15 11 24 12 07 13 16 14 25 15 08 16 17 17 26 18 09 19 18 C5 - Where can I find photos of the IIe card? Photos of the author's card and screendumps of the card in use can be found at http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/lc_images.html Section D - USING THE...
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