Re: Hard drive problem?

[commodorejohn@gmail.com]

On Aug 18, 8:14 pm, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 7:40 am, commodorej...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I reformatted the drive with the CMS utility. It will recognize the
> > drive if I boot from a ProDOS floppy, but it still won't auto-boot
> > unless I restart from GS/OS.
>
> OK, lets try to establish exactly what you've done:
>
> 1) When you reformatted your drive, did you do a fresh installation of
> the system software?
> 2) What happens when you go into the IIgs Control Panel and change the
> boot slot to the slot of your CMS SCSI card? (ie. not "Scan")
> 3) I assume that you're waiting for your drive to spin-up before
> switching on the IIgs? You may need to modify the bootup delay jumpers
> as detailed in the CMS SCSI card manual previously referred to by
> Bill.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

Okay, finally pinpointed the problem: it's taking 38 seconds, from
boot, to actually pop up the ICP or give any indication that it
recognizes the hard disk. I guess I just wasn't being patient enough.
But 38 seconds is well after the drive has finished spinning up; I
presume I can cut down on the wait by modifying the boot delay
jumpers? If so, can someone explain the jumpers to me? They're not
mentioned in the manual linked above; it has settings for partition
start and size and drive ID listed where the other settings should be.