Re: Can I make my new HD bootable on my IIe?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Ernest writes ...
> 
> I have a new question for the group, and I hope that this one will be a
> little easier on all of us.
> 
> Right now, I've got the hard drive plugged into the HS SCSI card in slot #5,
> and it's partitioned into two 20 meg ProDos volumes.
> 
> I browsed through the FAQ but I didn't see any information about making a HD
> bootable, from slot #7. Is this possible, and if so, how do I do it?
>

     Don't know. (Never had a hard disk on one of our 8-bit Apples.)  With the
interface in Slot 5, you could try getting to the Applesoft prompt and
entering PR#5 

 
 ....
> 
> ...and, is it possible to format one of my HD volumes into a DOS 3.3 storage
> area?
 ....

     DOS 3.3 is dedicated to 5.25" 16-sector diskettes.

     Of course, you can copy DOS 3.3 programs to a ProDOS hard disk using Copy
II+ (e.g. version 8.3).  Some DOS 3.3 programs will run under ProDOS. 

     To just archive disks, you can use ShrinkIt to shrink and store whole DOS
3.3 disks as .sdk files (as long as the disks are not copy-protected).

     Many of your DOS 3.3 disks can, probably, be saved to hard disk and run
there using DOS3.3.Launcher. For information about this approach see
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DOSMM.html#022  .



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