Re: 5.25 Drives in GS/OS 6.0.1

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

That's not correct.

If you unselect the checkbox, the GS will ignore any 5.25" drives
connected to it.  Unselecting the checkbox tells the GS you don't have any
drives even if you do have drives connected.  They won't show up on the
desktop so if you have a need for 5.25" disks, you need to reselect the
checkbox and reboot before you can use them.

I've done this way for years to remove the icons from the desktop but
they're still connected to the GS.  Short of the driver hack, I don't know
of any way to make it 'see' only 1 drive.

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, GarberStreet Enterprises wrote:

> There have been several postings in the past asking why
> when there is only one 5.25 drive connected to the IIgs
> the finder shows two. Now the answer to this has been
> to load the Apple 5.25 driver into a sector editor and
> making a change to a certain byte which will render this
> to only show one drive. I have to instill this info into the
> minds of those who prefer to mess with software which
> is capable of doing this very thing through the system
> inside the preferences dialog box. Under the menu
> item "special" there is an entry called "preferences".
> In this dialog there is a box marked "Check 5.25''
> drives on Finder Start". While checked, the finder will
> seek out the 5.25 drives and determine how many there
> are and show those drives. While unchecked, the finder
> will show the number of 5.25 drives that it can have in
> the greatest setup possible. As I see it, the system is
> making this change for you, so why tell people to go into
> the software and possibly damage a perfectly good working
> system program.