Re: Q Drive Help

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jack Schmidling wrote:

>"George Rentovich" <grent@home.com
>
>>  That would be the SCSI  ID for the HD. I am not sure of the type of SCSI
>card
>> you have...
>
>Not sure either. Will take a look later.
>
>> Or how you have the Q Drive partitioned?....
>
>It came pre-partitioned q1, q2 and q3.  the startup stuff is all on q1
>
>>  IF it is an Apple one which one?.....
>
>If you are referring to the Q Drive... it's made by Quality Computers Inc.
>No sign of them on the web.
>
>>What is its ID set to.....
>
>Was set to 6 but does not seem to make any difference changing it.
>
>>  May need to copy ProDos and related files
>> to make a bootable partition....
>
>Prodos is on Q1.  It works fine as long as I have startup disk in the floppy
>drive.

Jack,  this is a very good sign that there is only a trivial problem.
I would not do anything hasty, like re-partitioning!  ;-)

It may be as simple as boot order, as suggested by another poster,
if the SCSI card is not in slot 7, since the floppy controller is usually
in slot 6, and it would stop the Apple boot scan.

If the SCSI card _is_ in slot 7, then the problem may only be that
the boot block (0) of the first partition is clobbered.  The first thing to
do in that case is to re-write block 0 using a disk editor, like ProSel's
Block Warden, with a known good block 0, such as the one on your
ProDOS floppy.  Always _read_ the block first, just to see if it is
really a bad boot block or something else (?).

Odds are good that ProSel is already on the hard disk, since it made
life with a hard disk so much easier.

Yet another possibility is that the boot partition has been set to a
partition which does not contain a boot block (unlikely) or system
software (more likely).  Depending on the kind of SCSI card, there
may be a utility which sets the boot partition.  The utilities for the
card and disk may be tucked into some subdirectory on the hard
disk, so some looking around is in order.

-michael

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