Re: -> Advice needed: drive & //gs

[luigi@ace.com (Luigi)]

MM{>skohns@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Steve) writes:

M{>>For example, I have the game Gnarly Golf.  It requires two 3.5 disks to pla
M{>>I have only one 3.5 drive, so when it needs to change disks, it grinds
M{>through
M{>>the 5.25 drives a few times, and checks everything before asking for the 
M{>>swap.
M{>One way to get rid of the grinding and speed things up a little is to
M{>put a black formatted ProDOS disk in the 5.25" drive.  The software will
M{>quickly see that it is not the disk it wants and move to the next drive.
M{>This works when any program does a drive search.

Also, if you don't use your 5.25" disks much (like me) you can just go
into the Control Panel's "Slots" option and set "Slot 6" to "Your Card"
which means it should never expect a disk there. I almost never use
5.25" disks anymore with my GS so I keep it that way...