Re: Profile on IIGS

[sirius@spirit.com.au (Michael (or) Meryl Hickey)]

In article <3und1e$qca@nuscc.nus.sg>, eng40220@leonis.nus.sg (oong)
hastily scrawled:

" Okay, I finally tried the ProFile on my IIGS today.  The controller card 
" first went into slot 2.  Tried to boot from it nothing happened.  Then, I 
" got GS/OS 6.0.1 up on fdd.  It couldn't read the PF so it asked if I 
" wanted to init it.  GS/OS could see that the PF has abt 5MB capacity and 
" went ahead to init it (ProDos).  Then, an I/O error occured ($27 to be 
" exact).  I'd tried slots 3 and 6, and tightening connectors to no avail.
" 
" My question is, has the PF "gone to the great hard disk playground in the 
" sky"?
" 
" TIA

Sigh indeed!

I've had 3 ProFile (5mb) at various times, each one noisier than the last.

The fist two died heroic, and noisy, deaths.  All I have left is one which
is so loud you can't hear an Epson LX-86 printing.  :o

Each one started getting $27s until even a reformat could't fix it.  The
power supplies all work, and the drives spin... but they just never finish
thier tiresome checking cycle.

My last (noisy) one was hooked up to the GS for about a month between SCSI
drives and worked fine from slot 7 on a ROM 01,  even booted System 6.0
ok!  

My recommendation is to shove it into slot 7 or slot 5.  I don't think I
needed special drivers for it, set the statup disk to SCAN  and I used the
standard ProDOS 8 IIe utilities to prepare the disk.  I did drop it into
slot 2 for reloading software onto the SCSI drive and had no problems.  I
don't think there's any special hassles with the ProFIle except that it is
about 100 "computer years" out of date.

Michael