Re: GS and weird HD problem...

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macfan@earthlink.net (Bill Brown) wrote:

>Hi...
>Just got a GS, system 6.0, 1.75 megs ram, Apple SCSI card...
>
>had a Quantum LPS 240 lying about, it became the next project...
>
>Installed the hardware (plugging in a cable basically)
>Apple SCSI utility disk found the drive...partitioned it...
>Two partitions of 32 megs each.
>(Prodos only recognizes 32 megs, right? With two devices on the card?)

Yes, but only if you limit yourself to ProDOS 8 operating system.
Since you use GS/OS, you can use the HFS file system as well
as the ProDOS file system.  As a result, you can use partitions
up to 2GB in size using the HFS file system.  As a Mac user, you
should be pretty familiar with HFS since that's the Mac's file
system until the advent of HFS+.

I use a 1GB hard drive on my IIGS with 4 partitions, 2 ProDOS
file system and 2 HFS file system partitions.  Got about half
of it filled up, but I use the other two partitions as mirrors to
back up.

>used Advanced Disk utility to format it, and install the OS

Check the FST folder in the System folder.  You should have a
Pro.FST (ProDOS file system) and an HFS.FST (HFS file system).
If you are missing the HFS one, check the System Tools disks
until you find the HFS.FST.  Install it and break that dreaded
32MB barrier.  You'll also get more flexible filename rules with
HFS!

>When I reboot, I get 14! (fourteen!) instances of hard drives on the desktop!
>With messages like "Volume Quantum1 exists, eject or rename" yada, yada, 
>multiple times...if I click "eject" the dialog box goes away, and some 
>progress is made...
>However, If I rename, and let the os just tag an extra digit on it, then I get

>an instance of "Please insert disk xxxx" when disk xxxx is mounted.
>
>Formatting a 3.5" floppy, also causes an instance of duplication on the 
>desktop...
>
>Clicking "eject" has only effect on the current session, the problem 
>re-surfaces after re-boot...
>
>I'd really like to work with this machine...
>can anyone help? Please?
>(this one has me stumped...installed SCSI devices on Macs and PC's without any

>hitch...)
>
>Thanks!

On the IIGS, the SCSI controller itself has an SCSI ID.  My guess is that
the ID of the drive and the controller is the same.  Change the SCSI ID
of the drive and your problem should go away.  Good luck!  Also, make
sure that the last drive (in this case, your only hard drive) is terminated.