Re: Stupid Question (How to setup SCSI disk on System 6.0)

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <carl.240.0@busop.cit.wayne.edu>, carl@busop.cit.wayne.edu (carl@busop.cit.wayne.edu) writes:
|> Another stupid question: I bought a 41 MB Quantum external drive (SCSI) for 
|> my Apple GS (equipped with RAMFast SCSI card, I guess), and I can't seem to 
|> get it to recognize the drive.  I tried installing the SCSI hard disk driver 
|> from the System 6.0 install disk to the System 6.0 boot disk but it didn't 

Don't do this, Carl. 
The System 6 SCSI driver is for the Apple SCSI card, only. The RamFAST has its
own driver on a ROM disk. You have to install this RamFAST driver and remove 
the Apple SCSI driver.

|> seem to do anything.  According to my manual after you do this, it should 
|> pop up with a window asking you if you want to initialize the hard disk.  
|> Well, it doesn't do anything at all.  When I boot the RAMFast utility 
|> program it comes up with "RAMFast card not detected in system".  I purchased 

Strange. Have you taken a look at that card ?
If it is a RamFAST the words "RamFAST" or "CV Technologies" should be printed
anywhere at the card. However, if you find "Apple SCSI" then it's an Apple
SCSI card. (deductive thinking at its best ;-)
You also have to set the slot where the card is in to "your card" in the 
Control Panel.

|> this system from someone else and I don't know much about the Apple IIgs.  
|> Also there was no SCSI card manual, but it does have a card in the machine (
|> and its supposedly a RAMFast card).  Once I got into a RAMFast screen when I 
|> went to boot the computer, but I have no idea how.  It recognized the SCSI 

Press the "0" on the keypad when you start your GS and you should boot into 
the RamFAST utilities (if you have one installed). You can install the RamFAST
SCSI driver from there.
To boot from the first partition of your hard disk press the "1" key on the
keypad while booting. To boot from the second partion you should press the "2" 
key.

|> disk as a 41 MB drive, and even let me format it from here (I guess low-
|> level).  But I can't get back to this screen and don't know what to do 
|> next.  Any ideas ??? Please post them... Thank YOU!
|> 
|> --
|> Carl Mueller
|> Wayne State University
|> email: carl@busop.cit.wayne.edu

Hope that helps,

Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)