Re: High-speed SCSI woes

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Xerxes409 writes ...
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> Running into a little problem. I converted a bunch of 32MB .po
> partitions I'd been using under KEGS32 back to an original Apple SCSI
> drive. I always work on the partitions through emulation, then copy
> them back to the original hardware via CiderPress and I've had no
> problem (I've swapped them back and forth 3 or 4 times).
> 
> However, this time, I can copy over the drives but I get some sort of
> hangup on boot. It always bombs during GS/OS startup, but the error is
> always different; sometimes it crashes into the monitor, other times it
> says "Please insert the disk BOOT" (which is what it's booting off of
> already), sometimes it claims there's no SCSI driver, sometimes it
> bombs because it can't find an FST. It never gets to the desktop,
> basically.
> 
> I assumed that the .po had been corrupted on its way to the actual hard
> drive, so I copied the partition BACK onto the PC with the emulator,
> and found that there was no corruption (did a verify through the Finder
> and everything).
> 
> So basically it seems like there's some screwup in the interface. Does
> this sound like a problem with the drive cables or the high-speed SCSI
> card in slot 7?


     So, you move your SCSI drive to the PC and copy virtual 32MB partitions
created under KEGS32 to the SCSI. Then, you move the SCSI to the IIgs. Is that
right?

     Have you tried booting GS System from diskette and checking the files on
the SCSI boot partition? 


Rubywand