Phantom Hard Drive, Revisited (damn weird!)

[ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu]

Warning....
        What I'm about to post makes absolutely no sense, or so the people I've
communicated with tells me.  It concerns my "phantom HD" problem.
        About the third or fourth booting of system 6.0.1 (was using 6.0
before), my system started asking about an unformatted disk in device
.AppleSCSI.HD02.02.  A couple of days later, it started inquiring about an
additional device, .AppleSCSI.HD02.01, in addition to the above.  Answering
"yes" to the "Format?" question brings the reply that it is write protected.
When extracting to disk in GSHK, the list includes these two devices.  Note,
.AppleSCSI.HD02.00 never made any appearance.  I have no idea why HD02.01 chose
to make its appearance so late.
        After much suggestions, I finally narrowed down the problem, it was a
problem between Richard Bennett's floptical driver and 6.0.1... or so I
thought.  As long as the floptical disk is not in the drive during any _one_ of
the polling stages (6.0.1 polls it a couple of time before Finder comes up
proper), I don't get the "you've a unformatted disk in HD02.02 and HD02.01".
Otherwise, it appears.
        I have not made any real changes to my system setup, and even if I did,
this happens under both a full boot (with TIFs, DAs, etc) and a shift-boot.  So
it can't be any of my desk accessories or other Init files.
        The situation persisted thru last night.  I had downloaded themanager
demo and today, I moved the PIF they had to my system setup file.  Double
clicked on the PIF, ran The Manager (demo), nothing happened, so I rebooted. 
My floptical disk was in the drive all the time.  I did not get the HD02.02 not
formatted message.  I deleted the PIF (from the manager), and shift-booted.  It
seems that my phantom hard drive problem has disappeared.
        I have not made _any_ changes to the system (besides the "The Manager"
PIF file) and have not powered down the GS.  There is no heating problem as the
sides are cool, and my GS has a System Saver IIGS.
        Also, when I had the phantom HD problem, I could not return from
Proterm 3.0 to Finder without hanging it.  Through Quit.To CDA I could go to
any GS applications (eg GSHK) but if I try to return to Finder from there, it
will still hang.  It hangs right after asking me if I want to format or eject
the HD02.02.  It checks HD02.02 after my real HD, before my floptical.  Normal
booting, it checks my HD, floptical, phantom drive, 3.5", 5.25", Ramdisk.  I
must add that I _could_ return to Finder from Appleworks (classic).
        Anyway, I noticed now that the phantom HD problem has disappeared, my
floptical gets polled last, ie, HD, then 3.5", 5.25", Ramdisk, then only my
floptical.  Also, I could return from Proterm 3.0.  I had not change the ID
numbers on my SCSI devices. 
        I am using a ROM 01 GS, with 5 megs of RAM (which checks out), Apple
High Speed SCSI card, 200meg HD with Tulin's floptical drive (but not its
driver).
	Can anyone make any kind of guess what happened?  It is driving me
bonkers.  Can it really be "teething" troubles???  Have anyone else seen this
kind of trouble before?
	Btw, I am *NOT* making any of these up.  Thanx for any answers or help. 
Ciao.

-Tai
ps:  This never happened in 6.0, but I had _other_ teething troubles when I
moved from 5.4 to 6.0... 8-(