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From: ralph@cbnewsj.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Booting from external drives...
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.052257.8022@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 05:22:57 GMT
References: <63725@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <63725@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v564huce@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:

>There's this little CDEV (Control Panel Device) call *Startup Device*.  Call
>this little puppy up in the control panel and you'll get a listing all HD
>partitions.  Just set one of them to startup and close it all.  An alternative
>that also works is to highlight the partition/drive you want to set as startup,
>go to the *Special* menu and select *set startup*.  it'll give you the needo
>dialog box asking if you want to set ****** to startup with *****.  say yes and
>reboot.  That's it.  One of those two ought to work.

Do these work with a Plus?  I'm waiting on a Quantum P105S to add to
our Seagate ST157N (45 Meg).  My understanding is that on the Plus,
the SCSI addresses determine which disk is the startup disk.  True?
If so, is it the disk with the highest address that starts up, or
with the lowest?  Thanks.


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Ralph Brandi     ralph@mtunq.att.com     att!mtunq!ralph

Nothing falls up without being hurled