Description: Apple IIe Card: How to Save Information to a Hard Drive
Header: Apple IIe Card: How to Save Information to a Hard Drive

 Article Created:  4 December 1992


 TOPIC -----------------------------------------------------------

 How do you specify applications on the IIe card to save on a hard drive with a
 ProDOS partition?


 DISCUSSION ------------------------------------------------------

 There are two different methods of specifying the hard drive when saving
 applications on the Apple IIe or, in this case, the Apple IIe card.  A ProDOS
 device is designated by a physical location and by path name.  The physical
 location on an Apple IIe is determined by the physical location of the SCSI
 card.

 On the Apple IIe card, use the control panel to configure where the
 hard drive partition is going to be phantomed to.  This is done for software
 compatibility.  If you look in the Apple IIe control panel slot assignments,
 you will find a hard-drive icon.  When you place the hard drive in a slot
 (virtual, not physical), you assign how the drive will be accessed when
 referred to in the physical convention.

 In other words, the Apple IIe card doesn't have any physical slots but has to
 emulate the Apple IIe. You use the control panel to configure how the software
 will see the Apple IIe card.

 In ProDOS, the commands for saving a BASIC file are:

 Physical Designation
    Save Programname, S7,D1    <---- S7 equals slot 7, D1 = Drive 1
                                     Change the slot number, Sx to your
                                     configuration.

 Pathname Designation
    Save VolumeName/ProgramName    If your hard drive were named
                                   ProDOS, you would type
                                   Save ProDOS/ProgramName

 ProDOS also supports nested folders.  All you would have to do is to specify
 the complete path name, such as VolumeName/Pathname/ProgramName

 These commands are all from BASIC.  Within an application, you will need
 to determine what the program is asking for.  If it asks for slot and drive,
 type the slot you configured the hard drive for.  If it is asking for path
 information, type the pathname.

 NOTE.  The above information applies only to ProDOS.  Apple DOS, the original
 operating system for Apple II computers, does not support hard drives.
 Copyright 1992, Apple Computer, Inc.
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