Re: IIgs and a vulcan drive

["magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Feb 22, 10:34 pm, "Pentium" <ballsa...@msn.com> wrote:
> I recently bought a nearly complete apple IIgs and I am stumped at
> booting it.
> The internal 20 mb vulcan drive is installed properly but the system
> cannot boot from it.
> If I insert the first of the seven gs OS 6.0.1 install disks, the
> floppy loads I get in a window:
>
> Disk EE1 may be damaged. Please move data to another disk.
>
> I first suspect a crash (value village is as gentle as a bull in a
> china shop) but I can still view the files in the drive. Another
> window then pops up:
>
> Unknown error #$005A
>
> Now the insaller can't see the drive unless I quit and look in the
> system 6 program launcher. I select the disk and get the error:
>
> Block number too large($5A)
>
> ...and return to the launcher.
>
> If I use the system utilities floppy and look in slot 7 disk 1 (the
> hard drive), I can see files. Lots of files.
> Some of the names look a little strange and I don't yet dare to try
> renaming them yet (i'm still reading the prodos manual).
> How should I backup? Fix? locate the driver?
> Massive amount of floppy swapping and transferring over to my LC III
> hard drive with a Prodos partition?
> I really don't want to format the drive, there is still goods in it.

I take it your LCIII can read, and hopefully format, Prodos disks. Can
you get online with the LCIII? If so download disk images of GSOS
6.0.1 and transfer them to 3.5 floppies. Then use the new floppies to
boot the GS and see what you have on the hard drive.

At least that's my suggestion,
Dean