Re: How to Boot 2nd drive?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <550u69$528@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

>>ProDOS will boot from drive 2 just fine (I tried it on my //c; I have
>>a tiny machine language routine from _A+_ that invokes the "PR#7"
>>disk code on the newer //c's)
>
>   You said the magic words: 'Apple //c'. Only that machine has the
>ability to make drive 2 look like drive 1 built in. The //e (which the
>original question referred to) doesn't have such a thing; if you try
>'PR#7' on that machine, it'll attempt to boot drive 1 of whatever's in
>slot 7, not slot 6 D2.

That's only the original 16K ROM //c. Slot 7 has the rudimentary appletalk
support on the unidisk //c, and it has the mouse in the memory expandable
//c and //c plus. So no booting drive 2 on those either.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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