Re: IIgs crashes and crashes and...

[Eric Dietrich <madscientist@treebranch.com >]

In article <4km3p5$qvk@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Bradley P. Von Haden,
bpvh@primenet.com writes:
>Swapping SCSI cards to see what is wrong is a bad idea when the SCSI
>card in question is a CMS SCSI card.  The CMS SCSI card does not
>write a partition map to the hard drive that either the RamFAST or
>AHS can see (in fact, I do not believe it puts a partition map on the
>hard drive at all - controlled in the card itself).  Using a RF or
>AHS card on a drive formatted by a CMS will result in a whole lot of
>munged or corrupted files, etc.
>
>It is not even a good idea to swap different CMS cards unless the ROM
>version (I think there are three) and switches are set identically.
>
>As to Eric's problems, I do not know the answer.  Which ROM version
>do you have (1987, 1989, 1990)?  There is a software driver for the
>1990 version that allows better performance with System Software
>6.0.1.


Don't worry, I don't have access to any other SCSI cards, CMS or
otherwse, to swap.
As far as I know, the partition map is indeed on the card.  This causes
Adv.Disk.Util
to fail every time I try to partition the drive the way I want it (20/20,
not 32/8).

The ROM version is 1990.   Someone was kind enough to send me the driver
a few months
ago, seeing as I never recieved one from Alltech.  When I found out there
was a driver
and a utility to format drives, I called them and they said there wasn't.
 Grumble.

However, the driver caused some problems.  For instance, some 8-bit
programs forgot
how to access the drives after they were loaded.  AppleWorks 3.0 told me
that my
"disk should be in drive 1 and not write protected".  Also, I could never
manage to 
save anything from BASIC.System.  I never noticed any speed increase.

I have decided to bite the bullet and do some ripping.  Out with the CMS
card and my
hand-rolled 40 meg drive, and in with an Apple High Speed and a 40 meg
Q-Drive.  There
goes my mad money for the week....

I will prolly send everything I need over to my little mac SE's hard disk
in the mean
time, instead of backing up.  Its slower, but i am out of disks.

In article <4km5if$kh6@newsbf02.news.aol.com> ZippedGS, zippedgs@aol.com
writes:

>One other question you may need to answer is what power supply you have. 
>If you have every slot full, the computer overheating may cause a lot of
>crashes, especially considering how much power each of those cards eats
>up!  I'd be condemning myself to a meltdown if I put my original GS power
>supply in place of my Vulcan's today.

The original power supply.  There are 2 fans, one on the PS and one that
sucks 
air out through 3 of the DB-25 openings on the back of the machine.  The
internal 
fan seems pretty useless, but the machine is MUCH cooler with the second
exhaust
fan.

On occasion, when I use my 5.25 drive, the fans slow down during disk
access.  This is
the only power related  observation I have made.

No one knows what an Error $0002 is?

-Eric
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