Re: Sider hard drive problem

[mtm4@rsvl.unisys.com (Mike McCormick)]

In article <1995Feb25.034048.19584@relay.acadiau.ca> 014242s@dragon.acadiau.ca (Ray Seto) writes:
>From: 014242s@dragon.acadiau.ca (Ray Seto)
>Subject: Sider hard drive problem
>Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 03:40:48 GMT


>I just got a used hard drive from a  friend.  He was using it on his IIE
>and now I am trying to get it to boot into GS/OS.  It's a First Class
>Peripherals SIDER drive and I can't get it to boot GS/OS.  Is there anything
>special that has to be done to it?  I can't even format it as one big
>partition (it's only 10 mb).  The utilities that came with it force a DOS
>3.3 partition and a bunch of others CPM Pascal etc.  My main problem with
>it is that is appears to be running it's own operation system that launchs
>a test based menu systems.  I don't know how to get around this.  I
>formatted the drive, it is completley blank, and it still finds this menu
>thingy.  Can anyone offer any advice?  Thanks.

I don't know how to make the menu or the partitions go away (the menu runs in 
the DOS partitiion), but I made the DOS & Pascal partitions as small as 
possible, and made two ProDOS partitions as big as possible (about 4.7MB 
each).  Then you can upgrade the boot Partition (e.g. HARD1) from whatever 
ProDOS is there to System 6.x (i.e. GS/OS) the normal way.

The menu will always be there, but that's just a minor nuisance.  Set the 
default entry in the menu to 4 (Boot proDos partition) -- then you just hit 
Return each time you power up to boot GS/OS.  One thing about the menu that's 
actually nice -- it reminds you to park the Sider heads (menu entry 7) before 
you power down.  On the Sider ][, not parking heads before power-off is a 
recipe for disaster.

Good luck!...

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