Re: 5.25 Question

[tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)]

In <9211031336.AA11933@apple.com> FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL writes:
>... one Apple 5.25 drive.  My son has an Apple //e with one 5.25 drive (bought
>in 1984) and one 3.5 Unidisk.  Presently, my son has the Unidisk
>controller in slot 7 and the 5.25 controller in slot 6.  He wants to swap
>those to allow booting from Apple Pascal 3.5 disks.  UNfortunately, putting
>the 5.25 controller in slot 7 means he always must have a boot disk in
>that drive or else the //e wanders off into LA-LA land while it waits for
>something to come from that slot.  I understand very well why that is (so ...

With the UniDisk controller in slot 7 the ][e will boot from it (3.5 disk).
Why would you want to swap the cards?
Most systems I've seen have 5.25 in slot 6 and UniDisk in slot 5.
Swapping those would make it boot from UniDisk in slot 6.