Re: Annoying DuoDisk polling from w/in sys601 ?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article tolsen@netcom.com (Terry R. Olsen) writes...
>
>Phillip "Ty" Young (tyoung@jove.acs.unt.edu) wrote:
>: Why is it that within sys601 on the IIgs that everytime I approach the 
>: desktop (whether just booting up or exiting from a program) that the 
>: system software feels like it needs to poll all my devices to see what's 
>: out there ?  Can this be defeated?  My DuoDisk takes for-freaking-ever to 
>: go through the two drives, grind a bit, and finally get on to my second 
>: HD partition along with my 3.5" drive.  Thanks for your help. 
> 
>You can set the finder preferences to disable "check 5.25's on startup"
> 
>If you don't use the 5.25's at all under GSOS, then just remove the driver...

	Another idea is setting slot-6 to 'Your Card' in the control panel.
Not only does this disable 5.25 polling under the Finder and all GS/OS software,
but also under ProDOS 8. I find the polling exteremly annoying, especially under
ProTERM or 8-bit ShrinkIt, where both poll the drive at least two or three times
before giving up. Under rare occations when I want to use the 5.25 drive again,
I just set slot-6 back to 'Disk Port' and do a warm-boot. If I didn't have the
control panel option, I would have disconnected the drive long ago! ;-)

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca