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GS/OS and disabled drivers
I'm afraid I'm a bit rusty in the details of my computer's OS now.
Years ago I had tuned the OS to where I liked it, and since then I've
left it entirely alone. Now I'm not sure what I did, and how to undo it.
I didn't want the GNO/ME shell to rattle the 5"1/4 disk drive every
time I issued a "df" command, so I disabled the AppleDisk5.25 driver in
System/Drivers, since I had little use for the drive in native mode. Now
I find I want to do a bit of writing to a 5"1/4 disk under GS/OS, and I
can't seem to get the driver enabled. I go into the folder, mark the
icon, select Icon Info, click in the box to re-enable the driver,
shutdown and power cycle, but the machine still comes up without the
5"1/4 driver installed. I thought that perhaps I had reached some sort of
internal limit, with ten devices defined (printers, null device, etc.),
so I disabled the System/Drivers/Ram5 driver, but the system still came
up without a 5"1/4 disk, and with a RAM disk. This also happens when I
shift-boot, so I don't think I installed some Init somewhere once which
overrides the status of the driver enabled bit.
I'm confused now. How do I re-enable the 5"1/4 driver, and while on
the subject, how might I disabled the RAM disk under GS/OS if I ever
wanted to do it (aside from setting the size to zero in the control
panel)?
System: 6.0.1 with HardPressed (no Drivers are compressed), booting
into ProSel and executing the Finder from there. Various small inits and
DAs from GS+ magazine and other sources.
I have two 88 MB cartridges for my hard drive, and this happens with
both of them, even though the second one has been much less customized
than my primary cartridge.
I'll ask that any replies be Cc-ed to my email, we've been having real
news problems here with some flaky network cards, and I see only about a
tenth of the posted articles in the newsgroups.
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Christopher Neufeld - Not a graduate student neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca
Home page: http://caliban.physics.utoronto.ca/neufeld/Intro.html
"Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity"