Re: Copying files from 3.5 disk to 5.25 disk

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Hi,
Actually you shouldn't have to boot any disk from slot 6 to switch to the
3.5 drive.  All you should have to do is boot with no disk in drive 1, then
once the drive starts spinning, do a reset.  At this point you should be in
Applesoft with no DOS loaded.  Then you can do a PR#5 and the 3.5 drive
should boot.
Jayson.

"Curt" <dare2be@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Jayson Smith" wrote...
> > Here are a few thoughts.
> > First, try moving the 3.5 drives to slot 5.
>
> I did that, and now I can only boot to the 5.25 in slot 6, no matter
> whether I have a disk in slot 6, drive 1 or not.  I guess the boot
> seeks from slot 7 downwards, and I believe that's why I put the 3.5
> controller in slot 7, so that if I wanted to boot from slot 6, I could
> just leave the drives empty in slot 7 and it would fall back to slot
> 6.  For some reason it doesn't fall back from the 5.25 controller in
> slot 6 to the 3.5 controller in slot 5.  (Did I confuse anyone yet?)
>
> HOWEVER, on a whim, after booting a 5.25 prodos disk from slot 6, I
> then did a PR#5 and got the 3.5 drive to boot, ran copyIIplus and
> viola, it sees both sets of drives!
>
> I'm guessing (and hoping) that the same trick might work with the 3.5
> controller in slot 7, however, since I have it working and copying
> files at the moment, I'll wait and post back my results later.
>
> Thanks for nudging me down the right path (no pun intended, yeah).
>
> Curt