Re: hard disk boot problems

[aw133@lafn.org (James Poore)]

In a previous article, pegasus@labyrinth.net.au (MikeyD) says:

>I have just installed a SCSI hard disk in my GS and am having a few problems.
>I already had a syquest removeable hard drive and it works fine.
>
>I have hooked up an internal 540 MB scsi drive into an old Applied Ingenuity 
>power supply/internal drive box.  
>
>I have formatted and partitioned as 4 x 32MB prodos and 1 x 380 (odd) MB HFS 
>partitions. I have loaded system 6.0 software onto partition zero and I can 
>happily copy files and programs backwards and forwards and run software from 
>the drive, using the syquest as the system disk.  
>
>However, if I shutdown/turn-off and change SCSI IDs so that the new internal 
>drive has ID 6 and the Syquest has ID 5 - the new internal is not recognised 
>as a system disk, the system starts to boot off the syquest and sometimes 
>succeeds but sometimes crashes.  A reboot fairs no better.  If I return to 
>the Syquest as ID 6 everything works fine and the all partitions are viewable 
>and useable.
>
>I've reloaded system software a number of times but always come up with the 
>same problem.  Am I forgetting something simple? (It's been 2 years since 
>I've used the GS - but I keen to get movin' again.) Or have I got a 
>serious problem?
>
>All help greatly appreciated.
>
>Mike
>
What kind of SCSI card are you using?  It may be that you might have to 
power-up the HD before the powering up the computer.

Jim

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