Re: IIC and external floppy drive

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

   If you have a '255' IIc (typing print peek (64447) at the ] prompt will
render a 255 response), you can do a control-reset and type PR#7 to boot
from the external floppy.  This firmware ws changed with the UniDisk
version '0'.

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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Nick wrote:

> As Far as I know...  which isn't very far, Apple IIs regardless of model can only
> boot from "Disk 1" of any slot.  So if you had 4 drives on your box, you would
> only be able to boot from S6, D1 and S5, D1 (typically).  With the IIc, I would
> presume that it would assign the S6, D2 designation to an external 5.25, but it
> would probably assign S5, D1 to an external 3.5.
> 
> Mike wrote:
> 
> > As far as I know, the IIc will only boot from the internal drive.
> >
> > Justin wrote:
> > >
> > > I just got a IIc and when I plug an external 5.25 drive in the drive won't
> > > work.  The light flashes when I start the computer up but it won't boot from
> > > the external only the internal.  What could I do to fix this?