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Re: Booting SCSI Partitions

Subject: Re: Booting SCSI Partitions
From: david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Date: 3 Apr 1993 11:22:47 +1000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
References: <Mar.31.15.19.53.1993.15323@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> <jmk3.733694586@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>

jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>You are only supposed to be able to from a hard drive's first partition
>with the Apple card. I wonder what happens if you type pr#x where x
>is a slot a partition is remapped to.

If it has mapped it over a vacant slot BASIC.SYSTEM will say NO DEVICE. If it
is mapped over your printer card you will start printing (and simliarly for
other I/O cards). It can not have been mapped over a slot containing a disk
controller so it will not boot you from any disk.
-- 
David Wilson				+61 42 213802 voice, +61 42 213262 fax
Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au

References:
- Booting SCSI Partitions
  - From: scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft)
- Re: Booting SCSI Partitions
  - From: jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)

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