Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Unidisk booting
Keywords: Unidisk //c
Message-ID: <42815@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 90 19:48:03 GMT
References: <1519@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1519@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>I'm posting this to clarify an earlier message about using my Unidisk
>and //c. I've received several nice notes about it but I must not have
>stated my problem very well. It's not really much of a problem. If I
>leave the internal drive empty the //c will check it first and then boot
>from the Unidisk as it is supposed to do. I was just looking for a way to
>bypass the few seconds of waiting while it checks the internal drive. Not
>a big thing really, it's just that I've been tuning this computer
>up for so long that I'm running out of ways to improve it :-).

No problem:  Make a 5.25" floppy with block 0 containing the following
in the first 4 bytes:

000:01 4C 00 C5

Keep this floppy in your internal drive, and this little piece of code
(which is JMP $C500) will transfer control to slot 5 faster than waiting
for the system to just give up.
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