Re: Booting SCSI Partitions

[lorend@pro-scat.cts.com (Loren Damewood)]

In <Mar.31.15.19.53.1993.15323@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu>
scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:
>Hey all.  I have a 42meg SCSI attached to the Apple HighSpeed SCSI
>card in slot 7 on my GS, and want to boot my /AUX partition.  However,
>its mapped as slot4, drive1, and that's only when I have GSOS (ie SCSI
>part driver/manager) loaded.  I figured I could do a disk copy (its
>832k) from floppy to it, and boot it so "full-disk" programs would
>loasd fast.  How can I do this?  Only slot7, dirves 1 and 2 come up if
>I boot ProDOS8.
>
>scraft@gum.rutgers.edu


It's very easy, but only if you are willing to use a RamFAST SCSI card
instead of the Apple SCSI card. With the RF you just set the boot to any
partition you like, or hold down the number key corresponding to its
position in the lineup when you reboot. 

There may be problems in some programs, however. I've found that certain
customized boot programs hate to find themselves on a hard-drive partition
and choke, depending on how it's written. Normal ProDOS and GS/OS disks
won't be any problem at all, and I used that to advantage with one of my
SyQuest cartridges - it has six 800K partitions as well as one large one,
and the six happen to be image copies of the System 6 disks. Total
installation of the system on my Quantum 105 meg drive is about 45 seconds,
unless I pick a custom install, which might take a little over a minute. 

Loren