Re: Booting from a ZIP drive...

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

Ya know, after I posted that question I went through and read through the FAQs 
again!  Lo and behold, if you read through enough of it, the clues will come 
to you how to set it up to work!  There's not a specific FAQ about booting 
from a ZIP drive, but there is one question that the answer will tell you that 
an HDxxSC has to be set to the highest number to be able to boot, and there is 
another one that says if you want a zip drive to be bootable you have to have 
at least one PRODOS partition on it. 

This booting from a ZIP drive is going to be a temporary solution until my 
FOCUS drive comes.  I'm having to back up everything on my HD20SC since it is 
starting to have the infamous "stiction" problem and want to be able to at 
least be able to USE the //gs until the FOCUS arrives.  I mailed the check for 
it on the 14th but as of yet it has not yet tried to clear my bank.  Doesn't 
particularly surprise me since the last check I mailed out of state actually 
took the post office a whopping 18 days to get from Kansas City to Pittsburgh, 
PA but it cleared my bank the day after it was received.  

I'm actually waiting on all the files to copy from the HD20SC to the ZIP right 
now (about 1,000 of em)...  I did a test boot of the ZIP before copying all of 
the programs over to it and was STUNNED at how quickly it booted up!  I really 
didn't pay a lot for the HD20SC, and as soon as I get everything backed up off 
of it, I have a nice lil 2GB SCSI drive to throw in the case!  At least it 
allowed me to start getting my feet wet with the //gs.  Will probably put that 
drive on one of the other //gs systems that I have sitting around here that 
have no hard drive yet! :)

In article <388A6168.4A3CAB82@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
>John writes ...
>> 
>> I could have sworn that I saw someone say something about booting from a ZIP
>> drive on a //gs.  Did I really see this or am I just imagining things?
> ....
>
>     Booting from a Zip drive works fine. (Actually, I think the Zip connected
>through the RamFAST does a faster boot than our 80MB Focus hard drive. But, the
>Zip drive's disks get swapped in and out; so, we usually boot System from the
>Focus.)
>
>     If you want to boot from the Zip drive, the SCSI ID should be set to the
>highest number of any devices on the SCSI chain. And, to regularly boot from
>the Zip, you should probably put your SCSI card in Slot 7 with the Control
>Panel Slots boot setting at "Scan".
>
>
>
>Rubywand