Re: How do I hook up a SCSI HD?

[Bill North <north@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

In article <3fmc83$85n@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> Alexander
David Wiebe,
umwieb81@news.cc.umanitoba.ca writes:
>I hopefully will be aquiring a Rev. C SCSI card, and a
hard drive to match.
>The controller card is used, so doc's probably won't be
available.  What 
>I need to know is how to install the hard drive on my
][e.  ie: Is slot 7 
>ok for the controller? (will it boot from there, or does
it have to be a 
>lower slot # then the floppy drive?)  I've heard that
I'll need 
>partitioning software for any hard drive bigger then
32MB, could someone 
>post it to the binaries news group (along with doc's)? 
What version of 
>ProDOS do I need to handle the hard drive? 2.x?

The IIe will try booting first from slot 7, then 6,
then 5, etc. If you want to boot from the HD, put
the SCSI card in 7.

The card came with Apple (copyrighted) software for
partitioniong, etc. There are some freeware(?) utils
floating around (diskhacker?) to do some of this.

Depending on your HD size, Prodos will handle it way
back to (probably) 1.1.1. You should (in theory)
always use the latest version for your machine.
If the HD is <64MB (two partitions or less) then
generally no problem. If larger, then only Prodos
2.X+ (?) will "remap" the extra partitions (up to
six?) into "empty" slots so you can access them.

But(?) the supplied 8-bit partitioning software
probably only lets you create two partitions.

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