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- From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: 5.25 Question
- Message-ID: <9211101342.AA27193@apple.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 13:26:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I previously wrote....
- >... one Apple 5.25 drive. My son has an Apple //e with one 5.25 drive (bought
- >in 1984) and one 3.5 Unidisk. Presently, my son has the Unidisk
- >controller in slot 7 and the 5.25 controller in slot 6. He wants to swap
- >those to allow booting from Apple Pascal 3.5 disks. UNfortunately, putting
- >the 5.25 controller in slot 7 means he always must have a boot disk in
- >that drive or else the //e wanders off into LA-LA land while it waits for
- >something to come from that slot. I understand very well why that is (so ...
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- and Tom Kelly replied....
- >With the UniDisk controller in slot 7 the ][e will boot from it (3.5 disk).
- >Why would you want to swap the cards?
- >Most systems I've seen have 5.25 in slot 6 and UniDisk in slot 5.
- >Swapping those would make it boot from UniDisk in slot 6.
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- RTFQ, Tom -- read the full question! Pascal won't boot from slot 7.
- Putting the 5.25 in slot 5 causes some older copy protected programs to
- gag and quit. My son has already dealt with the problem by using a small
- Applesoft program on the 5.25 to boot the 3.5 in a lower slot. I was just
- looking for a more elegant solution. Thanks for the answers, though. I
- guess I just put too much info in my questions -- all I really wanted to
- find out was whether the 5.25 drives sold with the GS are the 'smart' ones
- or merely repackaged dumb drives. It seems the latter is the case.
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- Eric S. Ford
- forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil
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