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From: petroski@mwunix.mitre.org (Frank Petroski)
Subject: Re: 5.25 Driver question
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Date:  1 Jul 91 01:49:42 GMT
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basilisk@spica.ucsb.edu (Can't touch this...) writes:

>I've tried to make the 5.25 driver inactive, but it crashes the system
>software when it do it.  Why does this happen?  I boot off of my hard
>drive and if I'm not going to use the 5.25, I disconnect it since my
>GS insists on polling the drives when launching an application and it
>takes it a while to figure out there is nothing in the 5.25.  I'd
>prefer just to activate or deactivate the driver, but as mentioned
>before, this doesn't seem to work.  Any help would be appreciated,
>thanks in advance!


It works for me.  I'm using 5.0.4 on a ROM 01 GS.  I think it also worked
on 5.0.2.  Have no problem activating it/deactivating it with the finder.
