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Re: How to Boot 2nd drive?
- Subject: Re: How to Boot 2nd drive?
- From: drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)
- Date: 1996/10/31
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: US-A2WUG
- References: <01bbc414$847264a0$d71d6682@130.102.2.10.130.102.29.215> <55027c$o45@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <550to1$sg5@news.emi.com> <550u69$528@darla.visi.com>
- Reply-to: drsmooth@relex.com
nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
>>ProDOS will boot from drive 2 just fine (I tried it on my //c; I have
>>a tiny machine language routine from _A+_ that invokes the "PR#7"
>>disk code on the newer //c's)
> You said the magic words: 'Apple //c'. Only that machine has the
>ability to make drive 2 look like drive 1 built in. The //e (which the
>original question referred to) doesn't have such a thing; if you try
>'PR#7' on that machine, it'll attempt to boot drive 1 of whatever's in
>slot 7, not slot 6 D2.
I'm sorry for making this unclear, but my point is that ProDOS does
not need modification.
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