Re: Weird problem: SCSI flash drive works but won't boot

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jun 17, 1:19 pm, Stephen <stephenh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 12:21 am, Nickname unavailable <winston19842...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there no utility to read at the lowest level?
> > I can read SCSI drives on my TI-99 using a low-level sector reader
> > before even formatting it in "TI" format, meaning I can actually see
> > what is there before.
> > Like I had a PC-formatted drive that I could read the 512-byte
> > sectors. And I could "peek" at the contents of CD ROMS this way as
> > well. There *has* to be something out there.
>
> My impression is that there are a number of tools that can do this,
> but the only ones I'm aware of are either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS 8 based.
> My flash drive doesn't even show up in these environments, only in GS/
> OS.

This is definately sounding like Michael (Mahon) was correct in a
previous reply to this thread. If the only time you can "see" your
SCSI drive is in GS/OS, I suspect it is the GS/OS SCSI driver allowing
you access.

Without modifying the firmware on the Apple HS SCSI card, I suspect no
matter what you try is going to fail, as it sounds like the card
cannot identify your particular SCSI-->CF setup.  :-(  It is *relying*
on the GS/OS driver. Unfortunately, I've never heard of anyone having
done mods to the firmware (not to say that it isn't possible though).

I'd love to be proved wrong on all this, as I have an Apple HS card
too and it would be great if such a config worked.

Cheers,
Mike