Re: Looking for IIc external hard disk cable

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

That's correct.  It doesn't boot from the Chinook (with the IIc's
internal diskette drive empty).

As you mentioned, the Chinook was probably not formatted to install
boot blocks.  I could not even get a catalog listing on the first
partition.  The second partition seems to only have a bunch of
AppleWorks data files.

Thanks for the information.

On Dec 29, 3:45 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 3:04 am, pitz <pitz.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have the CT-40c drive working now.  The IIc's that I own always boot
> > from the internal drive (IIRC, only the original ROM 255 can be booted
> > from an external drive).
>
> Are you saying that you cannot boot from theChinook?
>
> You should be able to - the Rom 0 IIc automatically tries to boot from
> the first Smartport device (slot 5) and if that fails or is
> unavailable it tries the internal 5.25 (slot 6). Was theChinook
> originally formated by a program that installs boot blocks?
>
> The Rev 255 is the only IIc with the ability to manually boot from the
> external UniDisk 5.25 (via PR#7).
>
> A Rev 3/4 adds the ability to boot from the RAMcard (slot 4).