Re: System 6 & SCSI

[Liam Busey <buseyl@my-deja.com>]

Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 
> I have the Apple High-Speed SCSI card in a IIGS ROM3 in Slot 7.  After
> much agonizing trying to get it to work with my HD20SC (turns out the
> drive itself is bad), in despartion, I plugged in my ZipPlus drive.
> SCSI Utilities finally showed me that there was something on the bus,
> and it would even partition the ZipDisk for me.  Upon booting System 6,
> it said "SCSI Device requires driver".  So, I installed the SCSI drivers
> from the SCSI Utilities disk onto the System 6 boot floppy.  Now, when
> booting, it crashes when the progress bar is about 3/4 full, and dumps
> me into what appears to be a debugger (it has an asterisk for a
> prompt).  I'm not exactly sure what to do there (It's been 9 years since
> I last used a IIGS), so I'm stuck.  This occurs with or without the Zip
> drive plugged in, so I am led to believe that its a problem with the
> SCSI drivers.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?  Are there different drivers for
> System 6?
> 
> Any help is appreciated...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon

Hi John. Did you install the SCSI drivers from the utility included with
the HS SCSI? I've heard they're a bit dated so that may well be the
source of problem. 

My HS SCSI system uses the drivers found on the system 6.0.1 OS disks.
They brought up my IIgs with a minimum of SCSI voodoo.

On a side note, wasn't there a quirk to using a zip drive on a HS SCSI
card? Something about the drive going into sleep mode every 10 minutes
or so? Supposedly someone wrote a patch to alleviate this but I can't
remember the details. Does anyone recall?

Liam Busey