Re: SCSI Blues [Was: Re: AppleII Gs Problems]

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adam@aladdin.rado.uic.edu (Adam Powers) wrote:
>
>While on the subject of IIgs cards...
>
>I recently acquired an 'as is' IIgs which I've been nursing back to health.
>It's a "Woz" edition - I upgraded the ROM to version 01, and it now
>has 1280K of RAM.  I can boot from floppy with GSOS 6, so the next
>logical step is to add a hard drive...  Here's where I get stuck.  I
>pulled an Apple-branded 40 MB Quantum drive from a scuttled Mac and put
>it in an external case.
>With the SCSI ID set to 6 and termination on, the drive showed up just fine
>when connected to a Mac.  The GSOS installer couldn't find it.  I used the
>Apple's HD SC Setup on the Mac to reformat and create ProDOS partitions on
>the drive, but still no luck.

Unless you have an Apple or RamFAST SCSI card, which use the same
partitioning scheme as the Macintosh, you might have to partition and
format the drive on the Apple.


>Any suggestions on whether this is a software or hardware problem
>(i.e., am I missing something simple like installing a IIgs-specific driver)?
>My card is labeled "CMS SCSI II" and I've tried it in a couple of slots.
>There are many many jumpers on the card, and I don't know what they do.
>Here's the layout of the card:
>"JP1" just below the ribbon cable - jumpered
>"JP2" just above the ribbon cable - open
>then there are six banks of eight jumpers each:
>"D10" - #6 is jumpered, rest open
>"SZ1" - all open
>"PS1" - #4,5,6 and 8 jumpered
>"PS2" - all open
>"HID" - #1 jumpered
>"SZ2" - #3,4 and 5 jumpered
>Any suggestions/insights welcome!  Thanks.

Ah...a CMS SCSI card.  I believe the partitioning scheme of this
card is tied to the jumpers.  The jumpers control how many partitions
show up or something.  I don't know how to do this, maybe someone with
a CMS card can post the settings?

-Scott G.