Re: High Speed SCSI and ProDOS

[apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <Qaox7.861$NK5.151461100@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
Phil Abel <ttsh35a@removethisfornospam.prodigy.net> wrote:
>"Just" upgraded from a Rev C to a HS SCSI card.  While GS/OS recognizes all
>my drives just fine, I can not get ProDOS 8 to recognize any of them.  When
>I boot the SCSI slot directly I get a "SCSI BOOT ERROR".  I don't have any
>SCSI ID conflicts or anything.  I tried with DMA on and off and it didn't
>change anything.  My other cards are a TWGS, GS Ram 4 w 4MB, and SuperSonic.
>I seem to recall reading somewhere that the HS SCSI won't read a ProDOS
>drive if you have multiple partitions?  Is this the case?  All the drives I
>tested had 2 or more partitions.  If this is indeed teh case, what if I set
>up a drive with 1 Prodos partition and 1 or more HFS partitions-- will I be
>able to boot from ProDOS then?
>

Ugh!  The switch from RevC to HS should have been transparent.  The fact
that GS/OS works (which uses drivers) and Prodos (which used onboard
firmware) doesn't work, tells me that you have a onboard ROM hardware
error.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)