Re: SCSI hard drive on GS: Questions

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <521jto$c8v@lynx.unm.edu>, buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e
buggie) wrote:

>I just got a different hard drive for use with my ROM 03 IIgs:
>
>Conner 3.5" SCSI 118 meg   (made approx 1990).
>
>I used CHINOOK scsi software to check it out.  Passed all tests ---- 
>every block tested good!  Partitioned it to 4 partitions.  My card
>is an Apple Hi-speed SCSI card.
>
>I installed it in my Profile casing (with hacked scsi ports), with System 
>6.0.1 installed from disks.   
>
>THE PROBLEM:  When booting, the splash screen and thermometer work as usual,
>but when the thermometer fills up, it never proceeds to the desktop.  
>Instead, the splash screen just hangs there with its filled themometer.
>
>I tried re-installing the System 6.0.1 again with a different set of 
>disks --- same result.
>
>What did I do wrong?
>
>Please copy your reply to me at e-mail also ---- my time at the e-mail 
>computers at college is so brief (prior to "kick-out"), that I hastily 
>read e-mail first ---- often never getting the luxury of reading lists 
>like this one.
>
could be all kinds of things... hve you checked the termination on the
drive? may need to add/remove those resisters.  Other problems could stem
from teh SCSI ID being wrong.  And, of course, there could still be a
software problem...

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