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Re: ][+ auto-boot from hard drive?
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:15:31 -0600, swithrow@ccrtc.com (Scott A.
Withrow) wrote:
>One question, though. Can the Apple ][+ automatically boot from the hard
>drive? When I power the computer on, it instantly starts accessing the
>floppy drive in slot 6. If I just let the floppy drive spin empty, and go
>ahead and do a CTRL-RESET, I get a cursor and can type PR#7 and then the
>computer will boot up from the hard drive just fine.
>
>I swapped the position of the cards, wondering if the computer just always
>wanted to boot from slot 6, but when I did that the computer wouldn't boot
>at all.
Well, you could have a disk in the floppy drive that has a little
program on it that boots slot 7. A real fast way of doing this would
be to sector-edit sector 0, track 0, so that it started with 01 4C 00
C7. This small change would allow you to have a practically unchanged
disk, so you could still save stuff to it.
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