Re: ][+ auto-boot from hard drive?

[swithrow@ccrtc.com (Scott Withrow)]

In article <649ut1$l5f$1@europa.frii.com>, shack@io.frii.com (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

> >One question, though. Can the Apple ][+ automatically boot from the hard
> >drive?ter will boot up from the hard drive just fine.
> 
> No dice. Nothing earlier than an enhanced //e can cold boot from anything
> other than a Disk II without a PR#. That's because they only consider devices
> with the firmware ID bytes of a Disk II as disk devices when doing the cold
> boot slot scan. No way around that. So that means no booting directly from
> 3.5 disks or slinky cards or anything else either.
> --
> Randy Shackelford                                 
> shack@frii.com

Thanks for the info. I suspected that would be the case, since the
computer ignored the cards and locked up when I swapped them, but I just
couldn't find any info to confirm it.

Scott