FingerPrint GSi & GSOS (6.0.1) .cont

[phaedrus@snark.wizard.com (Phaedrus)]

> From: lorin.evans@tcs.wap.org (Lorin Evans)


> > I obtained a [FingerPring GSI] card at a swap meet without any docs. 
> > So far I have had very limited success.
>  
>      [snip. . .snip]
>  
> >Any input would be appreciated particularly if you are able to run the
> >FingerPrint card from GSOS off of a hard drive.
>  
>    The FingerPrint GSI will not operate under GSOS  6.0.x as released.  It did
> run under most of the beta copies, but not the Golden Master version.  
>  You can use it with the ProDOS  and GSOS 5.0.4 operating systems.  
>  
> BTW , I have the documentation and the disk that came with the original set, if
> any of that would help you.
>  
>                                                  Lorin Evans
>                                                  Washington Apple Pi
>                                                  lorin.evans@tcs.wap.org


Hi Lorin, thanks for taking the time to respond.
I set up a RAM disk with GSOS 5.0.4 and booted off of that. The boot was 
successful and the three ProDOS partitions I have from an 85 M hard drive 
came up as well as 3 ProDOS partitions and 4 HFS partitions from another 
drive. However when I brought up a screen to print from Gif.View the system
crahed as before.
I then put Gif.View and JPEG PreRelease on the RAM disk along with some 
gifs and jpegs [ I guess thats obvious  :) ] shut down the two hard 
drives and rebooted just the RAM.
I was then successful in printing out a gif but when I tried JPEG P.R.
the system crashed. My guess was that the jpeg program might not have 
been compatible with 5.0.4.
I then installed GSOS 6.0.1 on a new RAM disk along with the aforementioned
shut down the hard drives and rebooted.
I printed out a gif first which was fine and then tried a jpeg and that 
worked as well! However when I tried to get out of the jpeg program the 
system crashed. I tried several times but I always crashed although I was 
able to print the picture successfully before leaving the program.

So for what ever reason the FingerPrint GSi card does not like to be invoked
when I have my SCSI drives online. 

Thanks again for the help.