Re: HDD Faq?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> Go to the Slots control panel and set the boot slot to Scan.  You must
> have it either in Scan or the number of the boot slot for it to boot a
> hard drive even if you already have the HDD controller's slot set
> to Your Card.

Since when?  My SCSI card is in slot 4, and my startup slot is set to
either 5 or 6 depending on my mood.  The hard drive boots fine, as long
as no disk is in the floppy drives.

The only common device I'm aware of that prevents "scan" behaviour are
the Disk ][ controller and UniDisk 5.25 controller.  Nearly everything
else will continue the boot process on the next slot if they cannot
locate a bootable device.

This means that setting the startup slot to "Scan" is nearly always
exactly the same as setting it to "Slot 7", and selecting a lower
numbered startup slot just prevents the higher numbered slots from being
booted.

There is one exception to this: on a ROM 1 IIgs with slot 7 set to
AppleTalk, setting the startup slot to "Slot 7" will attempt to boot
AppleTalk, while "Scan" will not.  (The AppleTalk boot process is quite
different from the standard mechanism.)

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David Empson
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