CARPENTR@SERVAX.BITNET (RALPH=CARPENTER) (12/08/89)
Lawrence Haider (LHaider@Pro-Sol.CTS.Com) says: >I just got the TransWarp GS with version 8S rev. 1.5w. This card is REALLY >nice! But, I've beenn experiencing a problem with it. It seems that when I >do a cold (I mean cold as in no power to the CPU or Sider for an hour orr so) >boot, my system will boot just fine. When I do a warm boot, the thermometer >will fill just under half way, the Sider light goes out, the thermometer keeps >going but the system isn't booting anymore. When I go into the control panel >and fiddle with a CDA or two,, the system boots fine again a. Sometimes, >right at the end of the boot, the system will freeze up and say "Insert Disk: >/HARD1/". Well, that's my boot volume (the Sider D4) and it didn't go >anywhere. I hit return and it might find it, it might not! WWhat's going on >here??? I have [ a nice system ] >The problem started when I put in the TWGS yesterday. It doesn't seem to >matter whether I have the Appletalk/IRQ on or off. I'm getting annoyed! >Any suggestions guys? Lawrence, A few months ago, we had to substitute a UniDisk 3.5 drive for a GS's Apple 3.5" drive which had to go to The Shop. We couldn't get the GS to boot from the UniDisk. We swapped drives, cards, cables, etc. No go. Finally, in desperation, we read the manual :-) and discovered that the FAST speed of the GS was TOO fast for the UniDisk to respond during the boot scan, so the GS never "heard" it. We set the GS's speed down to NORMAL (ie, POKEY) via the Control Panel and the UniDisk booted just fine. (It booted slow, but it booted.) Is it possible that the Sider is not able to consistently respond fast enough to your newly TransWarp'd system? What happens if you disable the TWgs for the warm boots? Ralpho _____________________________________________________________________________ / \ | Ralph Carpenter InterNet: CarpentR%SerVax.Bitnet@MITvma.MIT.EDU | | Dept. of Psychology --->Bitnet: CarpentR@SerVax SoBell: (407) 367-2616 | | Florida Atlantic U. Bitnet: Ralpho@FauVax GEnie, Delphi: Ralpho | | at Boca Raton CI$: 74015.644@compuserve.com | \_____________________________________________________________________________/ CC : SMTP@INTERBIT CC : RALPHO@FAUVAX
mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) (12/08/89)
In article <8912080232.AA12244@apple.com> CARPENTR@SERVAX.BITNET (RALPH=CARPENTER) writes: > > A few months ago, we had to substitute a UniDisk 3.5 drive for >a GS's Apple 3.5" drive which had to go to The Shop. We couldn't get >the GS to boot from the UniDisk. We swapped drives, cards, cables, >etc. No go. Finally, in desperation, we read the manual :-) and >discovered that the FAST speed of the GS was TOO fast for the UniDisk >to respond during the boot scan, so the GS never "heard" it. We set >the GS's speed down to NORMAL (ie, POKEY) via the Control Panel and >the UniDisk booted just fine. (It booted slow, but it booted.) > This isn't true generally, although slowing down the system may have made your specific problem go away. I boot my system from UniDisks all the time, as do thousands of others, without resetting the system speed to "normal". In fact, there's a whole lot of expensive hardware in the IIgs to make sure that the system isn't "too fast" for older peripherals. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that Amer. Online: Matt DTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its ThisNet: mattd@apple.com | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, ThatNet: (stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | have any opinion on any subject." Other mail by request only, please. | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------