Re: IIgs crashes and crashes and...

[bpvh@primenet.com (Bradley P. Von Haden)]

goldbug@oanet.com@oanet.com   (Herbert Fung) wrote:

>Eric Dietrich <madscientist@treebranch.com > wrote

>>I am using a ROM 03 IIgs with 5 megs of RAM, 4 in SIMMS on a GS
>>Sauce, a CMS SCSI card with driver in slot 7 controlling a hand
>>rolled 40 meg hard disk with a Quantum ProDrive 3.5" Mechanism, an
>>AE RamFactor in slot 6, a Quickie controler in slot 4 and a
>>Transwarp GS with ROM v1.5 in slot 3.  AppleTalk is active in slot
>>one.

>Sounds damn familiar. I've been having similar problems with my
>system. I've swapped out every part including the TWGS, and swaped
>parts onto my other GS and have concluded the problem was with my
>RamFAST card. Now I know you don't have one in your system, but if
>you can borrow a SCSI card from someone you maybe able to
>determine if your SCSI card is at fault. Currently my RamFAST is
>in for repairs.

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.


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