IIgs - Where Do I Start? — #18

Post #18 by david__schmidt

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Peripherals
Post Date	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 - 13:43
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/iigs-where-do-i-start.12981/

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I think I read somewhere that the old disk ][ cards prevent the computer from continuing to scan the slots for bootable drives. So you'd have to go into the control panel to set the computer to boot from the slot you wanted rather than just having it scan the slots.

Right - the behavior of the Disk II card firmware is to wait forever for media to appear under the read head. That would effectively stop the slot scan...