Re: IIGS startup pause?

[John L <jlogo@zipworld.com.au>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:43:12 +1000, "Mark Cummings"
<figjams@primus.com.au> wrote:

>I'm having similar problems with my Focus 500Mb drive in Slot 7. BTW I have
>bootup slot = scan, which starts from slot 7 and works down, therefore it
>should find the HDD first.
>It seems that after the GS warms up it'll re-boot more easily, even after
>powering down. But the next day, back to it's old tricks.
>A couple of things I do to "fix" it is to remove and re-seat the HDD or the
>Ram card, which in my case is a Sirius 8Mb.

I have a similar setup to yours and fixed the above problem by moving
the Focus drive to a lower-numbered slot (Slot 4 in my case) and
setting the IIgs to boot from that slot.

>I think the problem is the HDD itself, corrupted blocks, but it usually
>passes a disk-verify, so I'm at a loss. My other theory is that the Slot 7
>I/O slot needs resoldering on the motherboard, perhaps a few pins are not
>100%.

See above.  Move the drive to a lower-numbered slot.  Slot#7 on the
IIgs has different timing signals and the Focus drive is probably
spinning up too fast for the IIgs bus to handle immediate data
transfer.  The "corrupted" blocks are erroneous results.  Do a hard
drive block scan with Prosel-16 after moving the drive to a
lower-numbered slot.  I've tried all slots (except 3 & 7) and they
work fine with the Focus drive on my system.



John