Michael Maginnis (michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com) wrote:
: Simon Williams wrote:
: > Michael Maginnis <michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com> wrote:
: >
: >
: >>Since I mentioned this in a previous post, it's eating at me and I have
: >>to know. I have a FocusDrive mounted in my IIgs in Slot 6 (set to "Your
: >>Card") and start up is set to that slot as well. I also have 2 3.5"
: >>drives daisy chained into the Smart Port - if I want to add a 5.25"
: >>drive to the end of chain, do I have to make any changes to the current
: >>setup (other than plugging the drive in, obviously)? I seem to recall
: >>reading somewhere that a IIgs will automatically try to boot from a
: >>5.25" drive if it finds one attached.
: >
: >
: > I just rearranged my IIgs with the HD in slot 2 (set to your card), I
: > also have 2x3.5" ans 2x5.25" chained on the smartport. A lot of people
: > suggested different setups, but this one allows access to all disks plus
: > AppleTalk/printer and modem. The HD doesn't interfere with the modem at
: > all (at least with proterm)
: > -s
: >
: Sounds like the quickest setup, and what I'm looking for. I'll try that
: one; that way I don't have to move the SCSI card from Slot 7 (it didn't
: like Slots 1 or 2).
Until my drive died, I was running my ROM 01 machine with a high-speed
SCSI card in Slot 1. The one problem I had with that is that the HS-SCSI
card will only delay startup in certain slots, so on a cold boot I usually
had to let the machine crash, then do a 3-finger salute to get it going
because the boot cycle would time out before the drive was ready. I have
another solution for that; the TransWarp IIgs card has a nifty little
startup animation that is *just* long enough to delay startup long enough
to get the drive going. Only trouble is, my TWGS isn't stable enough to
use. 8-)
I gotta put this system back together again. Where did I put that
candidate SCSI drive.........
--Dave Althoff, ][.