Using Disk Controller II on my Apple II gs... — #11

Post #11 by magnusfalkirk

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 - 16:11
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/using-disk-controller-ii-on-my-apple-ii-gs.15007/

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The IIGS, if I recall, has its internal drive circuitry set for slot 6 by default. (So does the Apple IIc with its internal drive). This is because most people who bought the disk controllers for the II/II+/IIe put them in the sixth slot (if I recall the manual encouraged the use of that slot) and most programs had defaulted to slot 6 for disks by then (including, I believe, ProDOS).
If I were you I'd put it in a different slot. Your mileage may vary with reconfiguration, but I'd put it something else to minimize conflicts.

He won't have any conflicts with anything in the GS as long as he goes to the control panel and sets slot 6 to "Your Card" so that it will check the slot to see what is in there. Also if he sets the Startup Slot to 6 then it will automatically boot from the Disk II drive that he has hooked up to the controller card in the slot.

Since the majority of software expects to boot from slot 6 I'm not sure anything he tried to boot would run since it's expecting slot 6.

Dean

Dean