The quickest way to get comfortable with you Apple IIGS is to start using it. That's the purpose of the Apple IIGS training disk. Before you start up the training disk, you need to identify your startup disk drive. The startup drive is the drive where the computer will look for a startup disk—a disk with an application it can start up with.
Some applications refer to the startup drive as drive 1.
- If you have only one drive, it's your startup drive.
- If you have two or more drives of the same type (both 3.5-inch drives or both 5.25-inch drives), the startup drive is the drive connected directly to the disk drive port.
- If you have a 5.25-inch drive and a 3.5-inch drive connected to the disk drive port, the 5.25-inch drive is you startup drive. If you want the computer to start up from a disk in your 3.5-inch drive (which you do if you plan to use the Apple IIGS training disk), make sure you 5.25-inch drive is empty. When you computer can't find a disk in the 5.25-inch drive, it will check the 3.5-inch drive next. Depending on whether the majority of your application program disks are 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch, at some point you might want to use the Control Panel Program, explained in Appendix A, to change the startup drive.
- If you have two drives of the same type connected to a disk drive controller card, the startup drive is the drive attached to the connector labeled drive 1 on the card.
- If you have drives connected to more than one controller card, the startup drive is the drive connected to the card in the highest numbered slot. If you want, you can change the startup slot by using the Control Panel Program, explained in Appendix A.
A disk drive controller card is an interface card that provides a connection between the Apple IIGS and one or two disk drives.
