Re: Boot System 6.0.1 on a Zip 250 disk from floppy?

[golfrock <rtspitz@gmail.com>]

On Jul 30, 2:36 pm, gr...@comcast.net wrote:
> On Jul 29, 6:36 pm, "Kathleen Hartz" <PHa...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
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> > My trusty 250 meg SCSI hasd drive just died and  I can't find a drive that
> > small to replace it.  Figured I would just use my backup of my startup
> > volume on the Zip Drive and run System 6 from there.  But I can't boot
> > directly from the Zip drive......?
> > I think I read where one can create a simple floppy boot disk to then boot
> > GSOS on the Zip?
> > Here is what I tried:  1) copy Prodos and Basic system to a floppy drive.
> > 2) create and save basic file named 'Startup' onto that same disk.
> > 10 PRINT CHR$(4)"-/Iomega.A/Prodos"
> > 20 END
> > save Startup
>
> > However , when I boot the thus created Startup disk I get a message
> > something like " Can not load Startup GSOS file "      and the dreaded
> > swooping cursor.
>
> > Can someone help?
> > or shoud I go with a CF card instead of a used hard drive?
> > Or will the Zip drive suffice?
>
> Hi,
>  How do you know that the HD is bad? Smoke, grinding  noise.? A lot of
> times the controller card edge that goes in the slot needs to be
> cleaned after a few years.
>   Sometimes you have reseat the chips on the card and mother board. I
> was given a Ramfast the looked dead. Just pushing down on all the
> chips, hearing that srunch sound, as I pushed on each chip. Then the
> card worked fine.
>   Deliverence and Prosel work well fixing flies on the HD.
>
> BTW sent you an Email also.
>
> Take Care

Pull them out and use a little WD40 to clean the contacts can also
work wonders.

Robert