Re: Lost my 5.25 icon!

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:48 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>Jeff Blakeney writes ...
>> 
>> In my experience the 5.25" drive icons do not always appear on my IIgs
>> desktop (when I have 5.25" drives connected and enabled).  It has to
>> do with the way that the driver tries to detect the presence of a
>> 5.25" drive.  It doesn't always work.
>>
>> The solution here is to insert a floppy into the 5.25" drive before
>> going to the Finder.  If you are already in the Finder, you need
>> either need to run another program and quit back to the Finder or
>> shutdown and restart your machine to get the Finder to see the 5.25"
>> drive.
>
>     Are you sure you mean 5.25" drives? System startup does not spin these drives;
>neither does the Finder when it starts unless this option is set in Preferences. (In
>fact, our IIgs shows two 5.25" drive icons even when the drives are disconnected.) 

I bet you still have slot 6 in the Slots Control Panel set to "Disk
Port".  The AppleDisk5.25 driver sees that there is a 5.25" drive
controller in the system and the detect scheme it uses is faulty, like
I noted before, so it must be messing up and thinks you have two 5.25"
drives attached.

I bet if you changed slot 6 to "Your Card" that those 5.25" drive
icons would go away because the AppleDisk5.25 driver won't see a 5.25"
drive controller and will therefore not even try to detect drives.

You could achieve the same result by making the AppleDisk5.25 driver
inactive or by deleting it.

By the way, if you only have one 5.25" drive connected and keep
getting two drive icons in the Finder you can change the aux type of
the AppleDisk5.25 driver so that it will only ever look for one drive.
I don't have the details handy but I can get them and post them if
anyone is interested.  This info should also be in a FAQ somewhere.

>     Which brings up another possibility-- maybe all Louis needs to do is click on
>the Special menu, select Preferences, and make sure "Check 5.25" drives on Finder
>start" is not checked. 

The Finder, when it is installed, defaults to having the 'Check 5.25"
drives on Finder start' checked.  If Louis has not changed the Finder
preferences then this checkbox should already be checked.

This means that the Finder should check to see if there is any disks
in any 5.25" drives when the Finder starts.  If there is a disk in a
5.25" drive, both the drive icon and a 5.25" disk icon will appear on
the Finder's desktop.

But like I've said, if there is no disk in the drive then the driver
sometimes will fail to detect the presence of a drive at all and
therefore Finder will not even put a 5.25" drive icon on the desktop.

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