Re: Apple IIgs Advanced Disk Utility Wont Detect Hard Drive

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On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:56:41 PM UTC-6, Tempest wrote:
> Ok I got Easy Update to install System 6, but when I got to boot from my hard drive I get the Check Startup Device message. Did I do something wrong?  Do I have to do something special to the partition I install System 6 on?  Could the fact that I made 7 partitions have anything to do with it (I think that's the max the High Speed SCSI can support)?



I think you are talking about 7 devices, since SCSI has 7 ID numbers ( actually 8) counting #0 but I believe that ID is reserved.

But to cut down on the # of partitions, you could have a set up like this.

Part#1 - 32 Mb - Boot drive to boot either Pdos8 or GSOS with all its system files

Part#2 & 3 - 32 MB each and used for Pdos8 files

Part#4 - formatted to hfs and used for GSOS files, which can be up to 2 GB

Rob