Re: Hard drive problem?

[commodorejohn@gmail.com]

I reformatted the drive with the CMS utility. It will recognize the
drive if I boot from a ProDOS floppy, but it still won't auto-boot
unless I restart from GS/OS.

Bill Garber wrote:
> <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote in message 017e5624-7197-4e94-a367-afb69bada594@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com">news:017e5624-7197-4e94-a367-afb69bada594@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> > On Aug 17, 9:03 pm, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 18, 10:24 am, commodorej...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > On Aug 17, 6:43 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> > > <commodorej...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> > >63539f71-9ede-4aca-b620-e5d78e25cb1a@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com">news:63539f71-9ede-4aca-b620-e5d78e25cb1a@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> >> > > >I don't think this is the case, since, as stated, the setup was
> >> > > > working just fine until a few days ago; no hardware or settings were
> >> > > > changed. If this were the case, what could I do to fix it?
> >>
> >> > > If no hardware or setting changes were made, and the BRAM battery
> >> > > is good, then this leaves only one thing, software. Was anything added
> >> > > or deleted between the time that it worked and the time that it did not?
> >>
> >> > > Bill Garber from GS-Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com
> >>
> >> > Shortly before it stopped working, I formatted the empty space on the
> >> > drive as an HFS partition, to keep the SCSI card from searching
> >> > through 700+ MB of empty space for partitions. It worked for about a
> >> > day after that, then stopped working. Could that be the cause of the
> >> > problem?
> >>
> >> This sounds suspiciously like the cause of your problems.
> >> Incidentally, how did you manage to format part of the drive as a HFS
> >> partition? The CMS SCSI card only supports ProDOS partitions and the
> >> partition info is only known by the CMS SCSI card itself - i.e. the
> >> partition table is not written to the disk unlike the Apple SCSI and
> >> RAMFast SCSI cards.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mike
> >
> > Hmm. Well, I did the formatting by hooking it up to my Mac; had I
> > known that about the CMS card, I probably would've thought twice! I'll
> > try backing up my stuff and reformatting it tomorrow, but I do wonder
> > why it worked for a day with the HFS partition before giving out if
> > that was the problem...huh.
>
> On my web site, in the Downloads section, in the Docs folder, there is
> the manual, "CMS88_OwnersManual.PDF". Everything on the card and
> drive are layed out for you.
>
> Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
> http://www.garberstreet.com