Re: Getting an old GS up and running

[donalmie@iol.ie (Donal Leader)]

Matt:

Did I understand your posting to say that one can attach any SCSI drive to
a GS? What about an old external 20 meg drive for a Mac Plus? Is that
usable?

Donal (donalmie@gpo.iol.ie)


> Lee Cremeans wrote:
> > 
> > I got myself a ROM 01 IIgs with the 1MB RAM expansion and what appears to be
> > a Rev C Apple SCSI card a few weeks ago. Is there much I can do with this?
> > Specifically, how difficult would it be to get a hard disk with GS/OS 6.0.1
> > going on this, with the stuff I have? Also, is the pinout on the SCSI card's
> > DB25 the same as the Mac's?
> 
> Would be nice and simple to get going provided you've got the 3.5" drive
> and a Mac...
> 
> Just connect up an external SCSI drive (connection is same as Mac), get
> 6.0.1 from Apples
> ftp and use diskcopy on a Mac to write out the images. Then just boot
> the installation
> on the GS and do an install to the HD.
> 
> Easy :)