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README for MLID
by Scott Blackman <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
This is a quick little program I wrote from a TechNote. Its purpose is
to do what ProDOS is supposed to prevent us from having to do: provide
hardware information about devices. It goes into the MLI device table and
figures out (if it can) the actual hardware slot, type of device present, and
its size. Some things I know it does not include which it should:
(1) Once MLID has figured out what the hardware slot is for a given device, it
doesn't go in to figure out what kind of device it is. The only ones it does
are: Disk II (16 sector), Disk II (13 sector), and the Smartport. Anything
attached to the Smartport is also identified via Smartport calls. This leaves
out: slot-based Ramcard Ramdisks, ProFILE, and some information about hard
drives I could get by making SCSI calls.
(2) Appletalk devices are not identified. They appear as "RAM-based driver
<unknown>"
I release this program into the public domain. Take and enjoy.