setting GS configuration

[p035631b@pb.seflin.org (Joe Cairnes)]

About a year ago I bought an Apple IIGS Owner's Reference and a
Programmer's Introduction to the Apple IIGS and a (first and only for me)
GS.  The machine is marked Woz LIMITED EDITION. 

Before trying to use this system, I thought: that with a GS, 3.5" drives
were near always connected to a port hardwired to slot 5 and that with a
GS, 5.25" drives were near always connected to a port hardwired to slot 6. 

My 3.5" drives are all cabled to DB15 connectors.  I attached 3.5" drives
to a DB15 connector near a hieroglyphic on the GS that bears a vague
resemblance to a smaller than actual size 5.25" diskette. 

I tried to use a Disk ][ and interface in six slots with and without
memory expansion card installed in memory expansion slot.  (I did not try
slot 3.) I found that disks could be read only from slot 7. 

Eventually I stumbled onto a combination keystroke that brought a
configuration menu display.  The keystroke was something like
Apple-[RESET].  I reset the slot specs to permit 5.25" disk use in slots 
4, 5, and 6.  But I did not get 3.5" drives to work; perhaps all of them 
are broken.

Now I cannot get any combination of two printer interfaces, three cables,
and two printers to produce anything. 

My stroking Apple-[RESET] does nothing substantial. 

Please tell me how can I reconfigure the slot assignments.  And if I am
wrong to expect to be able to print from slot 1, how can I print.  And if 
this report indicates I have done something wrong in trying to get my 
weak 3.5 drives to work.

I have neither feeling nor thought that with a GS I am in control.  In
fact I think that with a GS the previous owner through software or
firmware has nearly all control over current use of the machine.  :-)

:-) :-) :-)  Is my experience a demonstration that either ][e or //e is
the finest computer ever made?  And that I have spent time on an inferior
item?  :-) :-) :-)

Making the most of my ignorance,

Joe			electron icmail - p035631b@pb.seflin.org

Now surfing the world at 2400 bits/second with more than one megahertz of
raw computing power.  Apple ][ forever.