Re: help w/ 2nd Apple IIe floppy drive

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6gg77a$89g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,  <skaff@lwginc.com> wrote:
>I am tyring to play around with an Apple IIe computer we got in here at the
>office. It has 2 external drives. I can not seem to figure out how to access
>the 2nd drive. I have the operating systemm disk in the 1st drive but how can
>I load or run a program from the 2nd drive?

   First, on a //e, there is no way to boot the second disk on a slot
directly, if you're talking about a program that is selfbooting. Next,
if trying to access other drives from within an application, you're
going to have to consult that app's help for the exact set of commands
to run-- that varies by app. If you're talking about Basic under
ProDOS or DOS 3.3, then tack ",D2" (no quotes) to the end of a DOS
command and it'll set the current drive to the second one until you
change it back with a ",D1" command.

   The Apple II DOS & Commands FAQ as part of the official csa2 FAQs
at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html covers this subject in
much more detail, and the rest of the official csa2 FAQs (not some
'rubywanker' sector editing pirate's theft of others words without
their permissions to fit his Apple II-hating view as that slimeball
has probably tried to ingratiate himself) cover things correctly.

Nathan Mates
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