Re: Shall an Unidisk 3.5 connected to IIGS smart port, boot troubleless?

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On May 15, 2:36 pm, ilga...@videobank.it wrote:
> I've received an unidisk 3.5 and i noticed a strange behaviour.
> If i use regular disks made with apple 3.5 drive with 2:1 interleave
> with unidisk connected alone to smart port it doesn't boot at all;
> neither with ROM 01, nor with my ROM 3 IIgs.
> However If i use the unidisk together with an Apple 3.5 drive and boot
> System 5.0.4 (unidisk driver on disk) with apple 3.5 the unidisk is
> recognized by finder, polled intermittenly and read my disk flawlessy
> but seems to give a mistake when trying to write.
>
> Shall a fully functional unidisk allow a normal (even if slow) boot
> with a IIGS when connected alone to smart port?

I could be wrong but I don't think the Unidisk 3.5 was ever designed
to be used as a boot drive on the GS. Using it as a second drive, with
the Apple 3.5 plugged in first, is probably your best means of using
it.

Dean