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Restricting to one 5.25" drive



In a previous post David Empson said: (paraphrased a bit.)

> Change original file type of $010E to $0101 to cause only one
> 5.25" disk drive to appear on the Finder screen.
 
> For a standard GS/OS device driver, the lower six bits specify
> the number of devices supported by the driver (see the file type
> note on GS/OS drivers: FTN.BB.XXXX), so the maximum number of
> devices that can be supported by a single driver is 63.  You
> should NEVER increase this higher than the original value,
> because the driver probably doesn't have space in its device
> tables to support more drivers than it originally claimed to.

I have tried changing the aux type to $0101 and the result was that
BOTH 5.25" drive icons disappeared when I rebooted. Is my problem that
I have slot six set to "Your Card?"


Kind Regards,


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