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After Googling this for an hour or two and not finding much, I have found something solid just minutes after posting my question!
From page 40 of TRS8BIT volume 09 issue 02 from June 2015 there is an article on a "FreHD Expansion Interface" which includes this paragraph:
If a WDC1771 Disc Controller is found then the LII ROM programs the
chip to ...
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Press: Ctrl+Reset
This should get you to the Applesoft BASIC prompt, with a checkerboard cursor:
]▩
If you don't see that then something is wrong. Otherwise you can check your ROM version:
]?PEEK(64447)
255
]▩
ROM version 255 can supposedly boot the external drive (though I've never tried this personally) but some disks might not boot correctly. You ...
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Simply press RESET (depending on model and setting you might have to hold down CTRL or Open-Apple+CTRL before pressing RESET).
This will bring you into default APPLESOFT BASIC.
Just, BASIC does not contain any disk commands - unless DOS is loaded from floppy - which pressing Reset will abort :)
The only function available is to boot from a controller by ...
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