Re: IIgs crashes and crashes and...

[kmitchel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kirk Mitchell)]

Michael Kelsey (mkelsey@eecs.wsu.edu) wrote:
: In article <4kgjbq$r02@hermes.oanet.com>, goldbug@oanet.com@oanet.com   (Herbert Fung) writes:
: |> In <4kbo0s$9a7@news.ios.com>, Eric Dietrich <madscientist@treebranch.com > writes:
: |> >Help!
: |> >
: |> >My IIgs crashes all the time.  I've formmated my hard disk several times,
: |> >reinstalled System 6.0.1, and the like, and it works fine for a while, 2

< Some stuff whacked>

: |> >
: |> >I am using a ROM 03 IIgs with 5 megs of RAM, 4 in SIMMS on a GS Sauce, a
: |> >CMS SCSI card

What version ROMs does the CMS SCSI card have?  Anything prior to 1990 
versions may have problems with System 6.01.  If you have/had to fiddle 
around with the jumpers to set your partitions, their probably too old.

: problems with my system getting errors (i.e. crashing).  After formatting your
: hard drive did you verify the non-existance of errors (I used Copy II+)?   I
: found the the hard drive would verify cleanly, however, about two days afterward
: I started having problems.  I looked on the hard drive and it appeared to be
: self-terminating.  With a recommendation from a friend I purchased an Apple SCSI
: terminator and <voila> all my problems ceased.
:

This is also probable, though it could also be a SCSI cable problem.  I 
had many problems with my CMS card and CMS 64 meg drive.  I got a 
RamFast, but still had problems.  When I dumped the cable that came with 
the CMS, things worked much better.  Order one from APS, they're good 
quality ones.


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