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Re: IIgs Slot Scan Not Detecting Hard Drive



Tempest wrote:

...put my 5.25" disk controller card in slot 6
(for maximum compatibilty).

What compatibility is missing from the IIgs IWM controller?

 Ideally upon start up the IIgs should
check the 5.25" drive, then the 3.5 drive", then go to the hard drive
(6>5>2).  However it never seems to get down to the HD.  When I tell
the IIgs to boot directly from slot 2 it works, so the drive isn't bad.

Since I'm still setting everything up I don't have the actual 3.5" and
5.25" drives hooked up yet (just the cards and the HD), could this be
the problem?  Seems like a long shot, but I've seen stranger things.

Is the IIgs smart enough to time out on the Disk ][ Controller?
It certainly doesn't time out if you give it control.

-michael

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