Re: ][+ auto-boot from hard drive?

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

No, the II Plus won't boot from the HD20 with a SCSI card in slot 7
(or slot 6 either) and it also won't boot from a slot 7 Focus drive.
The next best thing, though, is what you might call a "pre-boot"
disk that you leave in Drive 1 of Slot 6. It can be DOS 3.3 (or a
faster-booting version of DOS) with a BASIC program such as:

10 PRINT : PRINT CHR$(4); "PR#7"

If this disk is present, the machine acts like it is booting from
the hard drive after only a slight delay; if you instead insert a
real 5.25" boot disk, it boots from that.

My II Plus now has a Focus 20-meg drive in slot 7 and I get to it
this way. Really fast and neat.

(Unfortunately, except for Copy II Plus, I have no useful ProDOS
 software that will run on my II Plus, which is maxed out with a
 buffered serial printer card, a 1-meg Flipster, a Transwarp II,
 a Videx Ultraterm and a Videx Enhancer II keyboard enhancer.

(I did manage to get AppleWorks 1.3 to live on the Focus drive,
 thanks to the Videx pre-boot utility, and it recognizes the 1-meg
 Flipster card, but there's no way I'd actually _use_ AW 1.3 on a 
 II Plus while there's a working IIe, IIc Plus or IIgs {all capable
 of running AW 5.1} in the house.)

- Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Computer Club - casa at unm dot edu

Re:

: Subject: ][+ auto-boot from hard drive?        Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997
: From: swithrow@ccrtc.com (Scott A. Withrow)
: Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
: Organization: UNGCC
: 
: I have an Apple ][+, and have recently to my delight hooked up an
: old Apple HD20 with a standard Apple SCSI card (rev C ROMs) in slot 7.
: Everything has gone by the book so far, and everything seems to be
: working perfectly. I'm getting a big kick out of it.
: 
: One question, though. Can the Apple ][+ automatically boot from the
: hard drive? When I power the computer on, it instantly starts
: accessing the floppy drive in slot 6. If I just let the floppy drive
: spin empty, and go ahead and do a CTRL-RESET, I get a cursor and can
: type PR#7 and then the computer will boot up from the hard drive just
: fine.
: 
: I swapped the position of the cards, wondering if the computer just
: always wanted to boot from slot 6, but when I did that the computer
: wouldn't boot at all.
: 
: This certainly isn't a big deal, but it would be nice to skip the
: extra step. I read lots of documentation that describes the correct
: settings for setting up an HD as a boot drive, and have followed
: those recommendations.  Is there something I'm overlooking, or does
: it just not work that way?
: 
: Scott
: swithrow@ccrtc.com