Re: Need IIgs HD help...

[stones@ix.netcom.com (Andy Stone)]

In article <4o2pis$98@montana.avicom.net>, grubic@avicom.net (James
Grubic) wrote:

>By putting together some parts of IIgs computers that our school district
>had scattered all over the place, I managed to put together one with
>extra RAM, drives, modem, and HD. The HD card was pulled from a "Woz"
>special edition GS, and is manufactured by CMS. I put the card in a
>machine which had some newer ROMs (1989). It is connected externally
>to a CMS SCSI drive.
>
>Since I'm new to the GS, I would appreciate whatever advice you can offer.
>What slot should this HD card be in? How should I have the control panels
>configured to boot from it? Are there some jumper settings on the back of
>the HD and on the card that I should know about? I have System 6.0.1.


  The best place to put thid card is in Slot 7. Every other slot serves
some other functoin (at least under ProDOS 8), and the only problem you
kight have with Slot 7 are a few commplications in setting up a connection
to an AppleTalk network.
                                       Andy