Re: GS OS installed and a error $27 on cold boot.

["Craig Bower" <to.email.me@post.a.request.message>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> Error $27 is a read error, obviously, and it might help to
> know what it is you're booting from, as in, floppy, CFFA,
> SCSI, etc........ I'd suggest unplugging everything and then
> plugging them back in. Sometimes a single bad connection
> can cause this condition. I had a 5.25" floppy drive doing
> the same thing. I replaced the cable and all is well.

Hi Bill,

Heh, of course, I should've included all the details.

- Booting from Slot 1 - CFFA 32MB partition 1 of 4
- Slot set to boot from 1, not scan
- 3.5" SD controller in Slot 5
- SSC-II (super serial) card in Slot 2
- GS-RAM 1.5MB (need a RAM4GS hint hint!) :)

I swapped out the GS-RAM because it wasn't bought as a
working board, it was bought to scavenge the chips from
for a Slinky //e card.  I thought it was a bonus that it
"worked" but I appear to be wrong. The $27 got worse
after I posted, and in fact on the boot, when you see
the little boot and the little speaker icon, the speaker
icon was completely trashing the display till it got into
finder.  I suspected RAM for no better reason than
it's the oldest card I have in my IIgs.

The SSC-II card was NIB less than a year ago, the
CFFA card is of course pretty darn new and the
Superdrive controller has "low-miles" too.

So far, so good, but the Finder reports no huge
amount of RAM - LOL ... C'est la vie, it seems to
be working better now.

All I did prior to System 6.0.1 was use software that
likely only needed the first 48K of RAM so I didn't
see my GS-RAM trashing anything in memory.

*fingers crossed* that this fixes the $27 error code.

I'll keep you all posted ... stay tuned on the edge of
your seats! :)

Later,
Craig