Re: Setting up a HD for a IIgs

["Will Strutts" <wrstrutts@comcast.net>]

"Greg Anderson" <nsforme@yahoo.com> wrote in message
nsforme-BE7533.22064731072002@ice.goldengate.net">news:nsforme-BE7533.22064731072002@ice.goldengate.net...
>    I've been running into some problems getting a HD set up for my ROM 1
> IIgs with a Rev C SCSI card. I can go ahead and get it formatted and
> install stuff on it, but I'd like to get all the Mac partition info off
> of it, and avoid the errors that come up saying it can't mount the
> partition.
>    I'm working with an old 40 meg drive (I've actually tried two - one
> Apple ROM-ed, and one that isn't). If I fire up the Advanced Disk
> Utility to erase it, I can erase the disk, but when I try and partition
> it, after I set up the partitions, it gives me an error that it can't
> partition the drive. I tried setting the 32 meg partition first and
> last, to no avail.
>    I also hooked the drive up to a Mac and tried to set up the partition
> map with SilverLining. I was able to set that up correctly, but then I
> couldn't boot from the disk (I'd been able to boot from it before I ran
> it through SilverLining). If I'm remembering correctly, I couldn't even
> erase it via the ADU after that.
>
>    Can anyone give me some tips about what I may be missing here? All my
> SCSI voodoo knowledge was gained on Macs, so I'm a bit out of my
> environment here. I looked at the CSA2 FAQs and didn't find any info
> that really related to this.
>
>    Thanks.
>
>    Greg

Did you low level format it on the IIgs?? The Mac stores a
bootstrap loader on the HD so that it will mount on a Mac
HFS volume. You need to remove that info from the drive
or you need to load MFS.fst on the IIGS GS/OS to recognize
a Mac volume. However, the first volume should be a Prodos
volume for it to be bootable I am told.

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