Yup, the Mac will search all available floppy drives for a bootable
disk, and as long as the disk and drive are good, it will boot from any
attached floppy drive. IIRC, it starts with the internal drives, then
the external drives, so if you put a system disk in both drives, it
_should_ boot the internal one. It also generally does the same thing
with SCSI devices (Plus and up), although IIRC it searches by the ID
number, and won't differentiate between internal and external.
Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, chris wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall doing that on a regular basis with the 128k, and
>> although I don't recall having ever booted from an external floppy
>> with
>> the Mac Plus, I have booted the Plus from the old Hard Disk 20 that
>> used
>> the floppy interface. So I would imagine that an external floppy drive
>> would also be bootable on that machine.
>
> Cool. So can I assume that if there is no disk in the internal drive,
> but
> an external drive with bootable disk is attached, the Mac will find
> that
> and boot from there?
>
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