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From: rtgrc@ultb.UUCP (R.T. Gayvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Running IIx w/o Floppy Drive
Keywords: Start-UP Hard Disk, Bad Floppy
Message-ID: <1645@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 13:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: trr1442@vaxd.isc.rit.edu (T. R. Ridley)
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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The Floppy Drive in My Mac IIx has recently (last night) gone
belly up with a horrible clattering and chattering.  I removed
it and it's attached cable to get it repaired, but lo, and
behold, the boot sequence will not find my external LaCie 80MB
Fixed Disk.  Reconnecting the Floppy Drive to the Mac causes the
Mac to boot normally.
 
Is there any magic CMD-Shift-Option type thing that is going to
let me tell the mac that there is not, and will never be an
internal floppy to boot from, and to go ahead and look for a
fixed disk startup volume.

System Spec. Mac IIx w 4MB, 80MB LaCie External, 8bit Color.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom Ridley
Software Engineer
RIT Research Corp

TRRRC@VAXD.ISC.RIT.EDU
(716) 475-7041