Re: Need IIGS booting help

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <1115848436.395406.156180@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
 <JoSuFarris@AOL.com> wrote:
>I'm new to your group, so I'll try to be brief for the time being.  In
>trying to deal with a misbehaving DB file in AW5, I have got myself in
>a situation I'be never had before.  My IIGS with extra memory, an
>external Q-Drive (5 partitions) & Vitesse's Salvation Supreme won't
>boot properly.  If I boot from Slot 7 as normal I'm directly in the
>Finder with the 5 "discs" displayed -- but there is a dialog box that
>says there two Q1's and I must either "eject" one of them or rename it.
> If I rename it then goes through the same routine with the other
>volumes and starts again with Q1 under its new name.  I can't get rid
>of the dialogue box to open any of the volumes.  I can get to the
>Control Panel and try to boot through Slot 5, but it says "Insert disc
>Q1."  If I try any other bootable floppy disc it says "check startup
>device."  (Q1 -- on the hard drive only --contains my usual start-up
>software.)
>
>If anyone can help me here, I'll be foreever in that person's debt.  If
>telephone communication seems most appropriate I'll suppky a number and
>ayone may call me collect.) Then, of course, I'll be back to my
>original problem trying to load an AppleWorks file and getting the
>"prompt" "Having trouble reading file... at Q2..." etc.  It always
>starts to load, but always stops on the same record.
>

Sounds like SCSI Voodoo.  In brief, SCSI id or terminator problem.

If the Qdrive is the boot drive, set SCSI id to 6 (or lower).  The SCSI
card id needs to be 7.  If it is the only drive attached it should have a
terminating resistor pack.  If it is the last device on a SCSI chain of 2
or more devices it should have a terminator.  If it is NOT the last device
on a chain, remove the terminator (which may mean removing the terminator
resistors mounted on the drive near the SCSI connector inside the drive
enclosure).

IIRC, duplicate drive messages indicate SCSI id problem.

Good luck!  It will work.  I do not think it a AW5 problem, per se.

  --Steve



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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)