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    From Anthony Ortiz@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 09:18:26 2022
    I'm looking into possibly hooking up a hard-drive to my Apple IIgs, but I have a question that I can't seem to find an answer for so perhaps you guys can enlighten me.

    Regardless of the model Apple II, how do you specify whether or not you want to boot from the floppy or the hard-drive? Is there some literature on this?

    Thanks!

    Anthony

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Anthony Ortiz on Mon Oct 3 18:11:26 2022
    Anthony Ortiz wrote:

    Regardless of the model Apple II, how do you specify whether or not you
    want to boot from the floppy or the hard-drive? Is there some literature
    on
    this?

    On the Apple IIgs, use Set Startup Device.

    On all other models, higher-numbered slots will boot first in priority. Put
    the controller that you always want to boot first in slot 7.

    --
    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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  • From David Schmidt@21:1/5 to Anthony Ortiz on Mon Oct 3 14:08:53 2022
    On 10/3/22 12:18 PM, Anthony Ortiz wrote:
    I'm looking into possibly hooking up a hard-drive to my Apple IIgs, but I have a question that I can't seem to find an answer for so perhaps you guys can enlighten me.

    Regardless of the model Apple II, how do you specify whether or not you want to boot from the floppy or the hard-drive? Is there some literature on this?

    Booting on power-up historically happens from high slot down to low slot
    (i.e. from slot 7 down to slot 1) on all Apple machines; the IIgs has a
    few extra tweaks you can make to change that a bit, but otherwise it's
    high to low. Again, historically, most users and programs expect a high-capacity storage to be in slot 7, Disk II floppy drive(s) in slot
    6, 3-1/2" disk in slot 5, mouse of mockingboard (sound) in slot 4,
    80-column card in slot 3, serial comms in slot 2, and serial or parallel
    comms (i.e. printer) in slot 1. Some deviations from that are less
    harmful than others. :-)

    A lot of this is history and unwritten convention, so that's probably
    why you're not seeing a concrete "here's how to boot a thing."

    If you're sitting at an Applesoft prompt, you can tell the computer to
    boot a particular slot with the PR# immediate command. So PR#6 would
    boot a floppy, and PR#7 would boot a hard drive.

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  • From Anthony Ortiz@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 11:52:29 2022
    Oh I see... so there's no "hold ctrl button down during bootup for it to boot to floppy" kinda thing. We just set the device we boot from the most as the highest slot and when we want to boot the other device we just do the PR#n command. Got it, thanks
    guys!

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Anthony Ortiz on Tue Oct 4 00:49:15 2022
    Anthony Ortiz wrote:
    Oh I see... so there's no "hold ctrl button down during bootup for it to
    boot to floppy" kinda thing. We just set the device we boot from the most
    as the highest slot and when we want to boot the other device we just do
    the PR#n command. Got it, thanks guys!


    Because you have an Apple IIgs, you can insert a controller card into any
    slot, and then use the IIgs Control Panel to set the startup device to that slot.

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    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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