Re: GS newbie questions

[Ron Slaminko <ronald.slaminko@boeing.com>]

Howe Family wrote:
*snip* 
> Point a web browser to
> http://www.educate.net.au/~apple2/manuals/index.html. I've gone to some
> effort to put the manual for the GS onto the net (with permission from
> Apple), just for people like yourself.
> 
Excellent!  Thanks!
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> > (3) I got both 3.5 and 5 1/4" drives that show up as slot 5, #1 and slot
> > 6,#1 respectively.  Both drives check out fine, however when I set the
> > thing to boot from the 5 &1/4 drive, it won't.  I'm trying to load some
> > old autobooting s/w on 5.25 disks and can't believe they're all bad,
> > especially since they pass the verification test.  Is there a problem
> > with the drive? the computer? or the operator?
> >
> 
> The drives are pretty old, perhaps they need a clean? They should
> certainly work. What software are your trying, and was exactly happens?

I did clean the drives, and ran basic functionality tests
(read,write,verify,format) all of which worked fine.  When I try to boot
from the 5&1/4, the drive light comes on and it makes that sorta
grinding noise that I assume is a seek to the 1st track, then nothing. 
The screen says "check startup device" or something similar.  The disks
are a motley collection of things that came with the system - some
commercial, some not.  Those that say anything on the label say they are
for 128K Apple II series machines or 128K IIc or IIe or something
similar.  They are not GS specific programs, but I thought the GS would
boot itself as a IIe if that's what it found in the disk drive.


> Also note that the Woz machines came out with the original Rom 00, which
> needed to be upgraded to Rom 01. If yours doesn't say Rom 01 when
> starting it is an unupgraded model. If it does, you should be fine
> running all the latest software.

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I've got ROM 01