Re: help with system 6.01

[bo snyder <bobo_snyder@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>
> Organization: CWO Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to
> abuse@cwo.net.au
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:46:39 +1000
> Subject: Re: help with system 6.01
> 
>> okay well i got so far as to now make the floppys.  using the make a floppy
>> option works just fine but now when i insert disk 1 of 7 into my gs and
>> power it up, it starts to boot then just says "unable to load prodos"
>> 
>> i tried to make a couple of the floppys, they seem to work just fine as far
>> as being able to copy the whole disk and everything, its just that when i
>> put the first disk into my gs, it just says the unable to load prodos
> error.
>> 
>> what am i doing wrong now?  (i can read and copy the files on the disk 1
> 
> you aren't doing anything wrong as far as I can see, but as others have said
> there may be hardware issues with
> 1) the Mac floppy drive that you are using (the type with the black flap).
> or 2) the RAM on the GS
> To help the drive on your Mac work better try cleaning it with a disk
> cleaner a couple of times.
> 2) how much and what type of RAM do you have in your GS memory expansion
> slot ?
> reason I ask is I have had one bad DRAM chip in a 4MB GSRAM Ultra stop me
> booting System 6.0.1, but run most ProDOS 8 disks fine.
> 
> To proove that some of the images are OK on the net I just downloaded
> Disk_2_of_7-System.Disk.sea.bin directly onto my Mac Quadra 605 (with the
> newer drives with the black flap) from Apples ftp site at:
> ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-N
> orth_American/Apple_II/Apple_IIGS_System_6.0.1/
> because A2Central's site kept failing to download on me. It automatically
> created a DD (Disk Doubler) icon on my desktop. I then double clicked that
> to open that and it created a disk image file with a 'dog eared' icon on the
> desktop. I then formatted two 800K ProDOS disks on the Mac (a real one and a
> 1.4M with the extra hole covered) I then ran Disk Copy 6.3.3 and used "Make
> a Floppy..." to make two identical GS System disks. I then booted both those
> disks on both of my GS's (one has 5MB and the other 8MB) and they both
> worked.
> 
> That prooves that you are doing the right thing, but that there is some
> hardware issue that is causing problems.
> 
well it sounds like to me that maybe also i have been booting the wrong
floppy.  i am supposed to boot to the disk 2 of 7 not disk 1 of 7 from
apples site to the gs???

also i am going to go to the thriftstore today and hopefully find a older
mac and put that floppy drive into my powermac 7500 or maybe if i am super
lucky, maybe i will find a pre-powerpc machine with an ethernet card in it..
then i could just hook it up to my network and not even need to worry about
swappping floppy drives...

bo