Re: Help with IIgs disk volume problem

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5d80lp$t8l@pippin.Advent.COM>,
Stephen McGrogan <smcgroga@pippin.Advent.COM> wrote:
>Nathan, thanks for responding.  I just checked the SCSI ID and it
>is six!  The only other items on the SCSI chain are the Apple High-Speed
>SCSI card and a CDROM drive.  The problem occurs with or without the CDROM.

   Is that what the switches on the back of the drive case say, or
what the drive is saying to the computer? [There tends to be a cable
from an external drive case to the actual drive, and if that falls
out, drives tend to give an ID of either 0 or 7] I think a 'Get Info'
on the offending partition(s) in the Finder identifies the SCSI ID and
partition number, or you may also be able to get this info from the
Advanced Disk Utils (ADU) program or the CMS SCSI tools.

>Is it possible that when David (my son) copied the partition from
>the 6-partition over to the 1-partition disk that, if he had changed
>the ID on the new disk to 7 then (to avoid conflicts) that this could
>have caused this problem?

   If he made the SCSI ID 7 on another GS, he would have noticed the
duplicated volumes at the time. 

>Where is this volume table kept?  Can I patch it somehow?

   Not in any of the normal visible partitions. The CMS SCSI utils
(should be on the normal Apple II ftp sites; I need to link them
from the csa2 FAQ) may be able to view/modify/change it.

Nathan Mates
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