Re: 5.25 Question

[FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL]

I previously wrote....
>... one Apple 5.25 drive.  My son has an Apple //e with one 5.25 drive (bought
>in 1984) and one 3.5 Unidisk.  Presently, my son has the Unidisk
>controller in slot 7 and the 5.25 controller in slot 6.  He wants to swap
>those to allow booting from Apple Pascal 3.5 disks.  UNfortunately, putting
>the 5.25 controller in slot 7 means he always must have a boot disk in
>that drive or else the //e wanders off into LA-LA land while it waits for
>something to come from that slot.  I understand very well why that is (so ...

and Tom Kelly replied....
>With the UniDisk controller in slot 7 the ][e will boot from it (3.5 disk).
>Why would you want to swap the cards?
>Most systems I've seen have 5.25 in slot 6 and UniDisk in slot 5.
>Swapping those would make it boot from UniDisk in slot 6.

RTFQ, Tom -- read the full question!  Pascal won't boot from slot 7.  
Putting the 5.25 in slot 5 causes some older copy protected programs to 
gag and quit.  My son has already dealt with the problem by using a small 
Applesoft program on the 5.25 to boot the 3.5 in a lower slot.  I was just 
looking for a more elegant solution.  Thanks for the answers, though.  I 
guess I just put too much info in my questions -- all I really wanted to 
find out was whether the 5.25 drives sold with the GS are the 'smart' ones 
or merely repackaged dumb drives.  It seems the latter is the case.

Eric S. Ford
forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil