][+ auto-boot from hard drive?

[swithrow@ccrtc.com (Scott A. Withrow)]

Hello,

Newbie question time again!

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 descibes 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?

Thanks a bunch,

Scott
swithrow@ccrtc.com