Re: [IIGS]Hard drive

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

JVernet <jeromevernet@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> a �crit dans le message news:
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> > If you are able to boot GS/OS and it has the SCSI drivers installed,
> > then it will display an error message during startup if the card has
> > revision A or B firmware.  It won't display anything if the firmware is
> > revision C - it will just work.
> No error message at startup, with or without drivers. pr#7 do ether nothing
> or bring monitor -that is not a good thing, i think.

Do you have slot 7 set to "Your card" in the control panel?

> But the reference written on the back of the card say: 607-0291-C, the C
> may be for Rev C.

The 607-0291-C number is the hardware revision number of the board,
which isn't relevant.  (I'm not aware of any compatibility issues with
different hardware revisions, or even if there are any different
hardware revisions.)

Any mention of "revision C" of the original Apple SCSI Card is in
reference to the version of the firmware (EPROM) installed in the card.
The older firmware versions (A and B) were missing features and had bugs
(in comparison to revision C), so GS/OS refuses to work with them.

Strictly speaking, Apple was just being bloody minded and using GS/OS to
force upgrades of the old firmware versions.  Once GS/OS has loaded its
drivers from disk, it doesn't use the firmware on the card any more.

> One question: my //GS come with only one disk (but 6 disk drive), a
> Appleworks GS 1.1 French original disk, that don't work at all (bad blocks).
> So with the help of a PC, a mac 6400 and a SE/30 with a 800k drive, i was
> able to recreate system and softs disk.

Do you have a complete set of system disks for IIgs System 6.0.1?  The
minimal set is three disks (Install, SystemTools1 and SystemToosl2),
with some extra software included on the Fonts and synthLab disks.
There is also a bootable system disk, and a Mac-specific disk which is
used to update the Apple II support for an AppleShare 3.0 server.

> But i canot find AWGS on internet. Is there a reason (not on public
> domain, i think)?

Correct.  Both AppleWorks and AppleWorks GS were commercial
applications.  They were never legally available as a free download.

> Is there another good word processor for GS ?

I used the 8-bit version of AppleWorks as my primary word processor.  I
occasionally used AppleWorks GS as well.  Another good word processor
was GraphicWriter III.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz