Re: System 6 & SCSI

[Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>]

Ah, using the System 6 drivers made it happy again.

yay hard drives - no more swapping floppies!

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