pitz wrote:
That's correct. It doesn't boot from the Chinook (with the IIc's internal diskette drive empty). As you mentioned, the Chinook was probably not formatted to install boot blocks. I could not even get a catalog listing on the first partition. The second partition seems to only have a bunch of AppleWorks data files.
That's interesting. Sounds like the format of the partition table is needed. And how does the Smartport firmware access the firmware table on the disk? That's pretty "smart"! Once a partition can be accessed, writing the boot blocks is pretty easy--I'd use ProSEL's Block Warden for that.
Thanks for the information. On Dec 29, 3:45 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:On Dec 30, 3:04 am, pitz <pitz.w...@gmail.com> wrote:I have the CT-40c drive working now. The IIc's that I own always boot from the internal drive (IIRC, only the original ROM 255 can be booted from an external drive).Are you saying that you cannot boot from theChinook? You should be able to - the Rom 0 IIc automatically tries to boot from the first Smartport device (slot 5) and if that fails or is unavailable it tries the internal 5.25 (slot 6). Was theChinook originally formated by a program that installs boot blocks? The Rev 255 is the only IIc with the ability to manually boot from the external UniDisk 5.25 (via PR#7). A Rev 3/4 adds the ability to boot from the RAMcard (slot 4).
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