Re: //c wonky internal drive

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Spamshooting Paranewsgrouper <spamgun@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 23:41:24 -0800, Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>
> Said something like:
> 
> >in article is7i2t46o2lrca7gvmjgb2t48nsgqp961r@4ax.com, Spamshooting
> >Paranewsgrouper at spamgun@[127.0.0.1] wrote on 12/2/00 7:53 PM:
> >
> >> So one question: I'm sure there is a way to trick the computer into
> >> thinking the external drive (5.25) is the main drive. Anyone know how
> >> to do it?
> >
> >As I recall, the external 5.25" drive on the IIc is slot 7, so PR#7 should
> >boot it.
> 
> Nope, it's S6,D2. Can it be set somehow to be D1, and the internal drive set
> to be D2? Or something that will accomplish that effect?

Not short of doing some hardware hacks inside the machine.  The drive
select signals are hard wired to the drive 1 and drive 2 outputs of the
IWM, so you would need to modify the motherboard to swap them over.