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From: jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Silly ProDOS 8 question...
Message-ID: <1991May1.205446.9541@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 00:54:46 GMT
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alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:

> Here's a related question.  We know that ProDOS 8 clicks the speaker
> when you boot it from a floppy.  Why, then, does it click the speaker
> twice when I boot it from my HD?  (40-meg Conner mechanism hooked up
> through an Apple DMA SCSI card, plugged into an enhanced IIe, if it
> matters.)
> 
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Assuming here that you are also booting ProDOS 8 from the HD, my speculation
is this : the click is simply part of ProDOS's initialization proccess. On
my //c it clicks on both 5.25" drives and both Unidisk 3.5" drives.  I don't
see why it wouldn't click on a hard drive.  I guess it just likes to remind
you that you're speaker is there.

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- Jonathan 
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