Re: Help! I've got 2 -- 5.25" drives on my Desktop after installing 6.0.1!!

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article buggie@callisto.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes...
> 
>Why not install DISK II DRIVES instead of Apple 5.25 drives?

	I can think of a few reasons. To start with, they take up 
more space being full-height drives (Apple 5.25 are half-height) 
and cosmetically their color and styling are an eyesore next to
the platinum Apple IIgs. You also must consider that unless you've 
built a pin-adapter, you'll need to waste a slot in your GS to add a
Disk II controller card. Yet another problem, you cannot set your 
Startup Device to 'Scan' in the Control Panel and the drive will 
continiously spin if no disk is found.

>These drives work well and they _never_ generate phantom icons on System
>6.0.1.

	I simply changed the 'Apple5.25' driver's auxiliary filetype
to "$0103" (from "$010E") and only one floppy drive icon now appears on
my desktop. Well, that is when I have the drive active, 99% of time I keep 
slot-6 set to 'Your Card' so the drive remains inactive (it is a terrible
pain under GS/OS, or even ProDOS 8 for that matter). It was no loss when
I connected a SuperDrive to slot-6 via an Apple II 3.5 Controller Card, 
I wasn't really losing anything. :)

>Steve Buggie

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca