Re: GS/OS partition error

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <326ube$2m34@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Steven Nelson <snelson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Help!  GS/OS has taken a dislike to my second ProDOS partition on
> my Harddrive.

[snip]

It sounds suspiciously like a device driver problem, or something in
the partition map or root directory which is recognised and required
by GS/OS's SCSI drivers and/or the ProDOS FST, but is ignored by the
SCSI card firmware and/or ProDOS-8.

Try the following:

1. Boot from a System 5.0.4 floppy, and see if you can access the
partition from Finder (you'll need the 5.0.4 SCSI drivers installed on
the boot disk).

2. Boot from a System 6.0.1 floppy disk, which has a copy of the SCSI
drivers installed.  (If you don't have one handy, boot the 6.0.1
"Install" disk, then quit out of the Installer and launch Finder from
the "SystemTools1" disk.  Do _not_ run the copy of Finder on your hard
drive, in case it is the problem.)

If both of these work, you probably have a damaged file on your hard
drive.  Try reinstalling System 6.0.1 on the hard drive.

If #1 works but #2 doesn't, the problem is more serious - a damaged
partition map or root directory, perhaps.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand