Hi,
My Apple IIgs won't use the 5.25" floppy and 3.5" floppy at the same time. If I have them both plugged in (chained) the IIgs will only try to boot from the 5.25" disk no matter where it is in the chain.
Make sure you have them connected in the right order. The 3.5" drives must be connected first, then the 5.25" drives.
If *only* the 3.5" floppy is plugged in then it will boot from that.
By default the IIGS will be set to scan the slots for a boot drive. This means it first looks for a bootable volume on a ROM disk, then a RAM disk, then it checks all the slots starting with slot 7 and working down to slot 1. The 5.25" drive controller is mapped to slot 6 and the 3.5" controller to slot 5, so it will try to boot from the 5.25" drive first. If it doesn't find a bootable disk there after a few seconds it is supposed to try the next slot, which would be the 3.5" drive. Assuming the 5.25" drive is empty, what happens when you boot with both drives attached?
You can also change the startup slot. Press Apple-control-escape to bring up the classic desk accessories menu, go to Control Panel, Slots and set the Startup Slot to 5. Now your IIGS should always boot from the 3.5" disk drive.
If I plug in the 5.25" disk later then the IIGS won't recognize it on the desktop.
Are you connecting the 5.25" disk drive to the IIGS while it's turned on? Don't! Never connect or disconnect a floppy drive to an Apple II with the power on, it can damage the drive controller.
If I do get it to recognize that drive whenever it tries to copy a file from the 3.5" to the 5.25" drive it locks up.
Anyone know how to fix this?
-- Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
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