Re: Vulcan HD/PS????

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Matt Willman <willman.matt@cnf.REMOVE.com> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Matt Willman <willman.matt@cnf.REMOVE.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Second Question:  I have a ROM 1 GS with a Sirius Ram card (fully
>>>populated, 8 meg) and I am having some problems with GS/OS.  I can boot
>>>any version of Prodos fine.  Whenever I try to boot any GS/OS version
>>>before 6.01 I get a "beep" during the temperature bar, then it hangs after
>>>the bar is full.  If I press control-reset I see that it has dumped me into
>>>the monitor with a bunch of ?hex? characters and a prompt....
>>
>>Matt, what kind of SCSI card do you have?
>>
>>If you have an Apple High Speed SCSI card, you have to turn DMA off
>>for it to work with the Sirius at 8MB.  This is not a problem with newer
>>versions of the RAMfast SCSI.
>
>There is no SCSI controller in this GS.  Only other card present is a PC
>Transporter....tonight I'm going to take the card down to 4 meg and see what
>happens.
>
>Matt

If taking it to 4MB does not work, this information may help...

The PC Transporter software patches the "ProDOS" file of the boot disk,
whether that ProDOS file is real ProDOS 8 or the tiny one that really
transfers control to boot GS/OS.  This patch is a driver that allows the
PC Transporter to work with the GS as a RAM disk.  In the usual
pattern, the "patched into ProDOS" driver is loaded when you boot
GS/OS and generates a "beep" sound to inform you that it has loaded.
I think your system is crashing at this point.

I recently got a used PC Transporter to play with.  I installed the patch
software that came with it and it exhibited a similar boot problem where
it will crash at the thermometer.  I have a Sequential Systems RAM GS
(the one that takes 4MB tops), so it does NOT seem to be specific to
your memory card.  Finally, I got a newer version of the PC Transporter
software and installed a newer patch.  This seems to have solved the
problems...

To play it safe, I took out the PC Transporter...I did not like the idea
of the funky patch and besides, I have a real IBM XT to play with. ;-)

Do you by any chance have your Vulcan card installed?  You need to
pre-install the Vulcan driver onto the System 6.0.1 disk before booting.