Re: Apple IIGS Hard Drive won't boot

[Walter McCants <wmccants@erols.com>]

Tried doing that , but no hard drive partitions show on the desktop when I
boot. In short, I can't get to the HD to install the drivers. Tried using
Advanced Disk Utility on the System Tools1 disk as well as the Apple High
Speed SCSI Utility but neither of them recognize the HD so I can install the
drivers and partition. The drive is a Conner CP-3100 sold under the Quality
Computer label.Any ideas on how to determine if the problem is with the card
or the drive?Thanks, Buck

Rubywand wrote:

> Walter McCants writes ...
> >
> > Have a 6-year old Quality Computers 100meg(Quantum) HD, Apple High Speed
> > SCSI card,Zip accelerator and use Salvation Supreme(Wings) for HD
> > management and boot. Get either of two error msgs when try to boot the
> > HD:"SCSI BOOT ERROR" or "SCSI device requires a driver. Please install
> > SCSI driver on boot disk and reboot system." Floppies work fine.It looks
> > as if the HD and SCSI card are fine; my "yellow blinking light " on the
> > HD tells me that the system is trying to access the drive. The problem
> > is that I can't get to the drive to reinstall the SCSI driver and/or
> > System 6.01; Installer will not recognize the HD.Any suggestions on how
> > I can boot to the HD or at least get the system to recognize the
> > drive?What do I need to have on the boot floppy to do this and install
> > the driver?
>
>  ....
>
>      You could boot a nearly bare bones System 6.0.1 from a diskette
> which includes the needed SCSI drivers and copy the drivers you need to
> your hard disk SYSTEM/DRIVERS/ folder.
>
>      Regarding Salvation Supreme's desirability as a boot program, I do
> not know. Unless you are very short on RAM, it is probably best to boot
> into the standard System 6.0.1 Finder.
>
> Rubywand