Re: Need help with HS scsi card

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:16:59 +1300, David Empson wrote:

>:Bob: <Moooo@mmoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I need help getting my hard drive to boot.  I have repartitioned the drive,
>> initialized it and installed gs/os on to it.  I put the 'boot from ..'
>> selection in the control panel to 7 which is where the card is at.  When i
>> restart all I it does is scan slot 7 then it goes to try to boot from slot 6
>> and slot 5 then it would display 'check startup device'
>> I  have the SCSI ID set at 0 on the hard drive and ID 3 on the CD rom drive.
>
> There is your problem.  The SCSI card searches for the device with the
> highest SCSI ID which is capable of booting and attempts to boot from
> it.
>
> Your machine will be trying to boot from the CD-ROM drive.
>
> Change the SCSI ID on the hard drive to 6, and it should work (it will
> also boot faster than it would if there was no CD-ROM drive and the hard
> drive was set to SCSI ID 0).

One of the remarks in the Apple II SCSI card manual is that REMOVEABLE SCSI 
media be given the LOWEST i.e 0 SCSI ID number.


>
>> PS What does it mean if the graphics get corrupted when i open a folder?
>
> Can you be more precise?  I assume you are talking about double-clicking
> a folder icon in Finder, but what graphics exactly are getting
> corrupted?

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