From: schmidtd@my-deja.com   
      
   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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