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* Looking into connecting a hard-driveAnthony Ortiz
+* Re: Looking into connecting a hard-driveDavid Schmidt
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| `- Re: Looking into connecting a hard-driveD Finnigan
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 by: Anthony Ortiz - Mon, 3 Oct 2022 16:18 UTC

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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 by: David Schmidt - Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:08 UTC

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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 by: D Finnigan - Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:11 UTC

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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 by: Anthony Ortiz - Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:52 UTC

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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 by: D Finnigan - Tue, 4 Oct 2022 00:49 UTC

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

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