Help needed

[jcitro@cwis.unomaha.edu (Joe Citro)]

  I need some help.  Lately, when I try to boot up my IIGS from a hard
  drive, the thermometer fills up about a quarter inch then just stops.  
  Nothing else happens.  I do the three finger salute and I get dumped into
  the monitor.  After several attempts (with the command-control-reset)
  and getting dumped into the momitor each time, I finally get the 
  thermometer again, this time it fills up about a half inch before it 
  quits.  I spend anywhere from 10 - 30 minutes trying to get the thing 
  to boot.  Holding the shift down (no inits/das) doesn't help.  I have 
  two hard drives daisy-chained on the SCSI port, a 45 meg "CMS" and an 
  80 meg "Cutting Edge". When the problem first occurred, I was using 
  the CMS as the boot drive.  I tried switching them around and put System 
  6.01 on the  Cutting Edge drive.  That seemed to fix it, at least for 
  a couple days - then the problem came back.
  Booting from the 3.5" disk doesn't appear to be a problem.     
                
 My system:
  Apple IIGS/Woz machine
   Slot 1 - Quickie card
   Slot 2 - AST vision plus (not active)
   Slot 3 - ZipChip GS (8Mhz/16k cache)
   Slot 4 - Empty
   Slot 5 - Empty
   Slot 6 - Sonic Blaster
   Slot 7 - Ramfast SCSI, Rev C, 256K
   Expander Slot - 4 meg CVTech with 1 meg Apple piggyback onboard
   Plus the 2 hard drives mentioned above.
            
  Does anyone have any suggestions? 
  
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                             Joe Citro  - CMSgt(Ret)/USAF              
       Newsletter Editor - Metro Apple Comp.Hobbyist  (MACH)  - Omaha NE
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