MAR21AA@TECHNION.BITNET (Uri Srebro) (10/25/89)
System 5.0 still refuses to recognize my hard disk. It does check it's pre sence when booting and when loading the finder, but it's icon isn't displayed, nor can I access it from GS/OS aplicaitions (I can from P8 aplicaitions). It wa s sugested to me that the directory structure is damaged in some way. This seem s reasnable, but how do I check/fix it ? Mr. Fixit reports "no errors" and as f ar as I checked with a block editor, nothing seems wrong. What are the bytes in the directory header that are marked "reserved" in the ProDOS 16 manual now us ed for (I noticed it is used now) ? Another unrelated question: My Apple 3.5 drive fails to format anymore. Th e finder, as well as Copy II+, says "format failed". I checked the drive on oth er GSs as well as Macs and allways get "format failed". The local dealer said I have to replace the 3.5 motherboard (an 80$ replacement), can there be any oth er posible reason ? Thanks in addvance Nathan Srebro | (Uri Srebro ) Haifa, Israel | (Technion, Haifa, Israel) MAR21AA @ Technion.BITNET
STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) (10/26/89)
If you can't recognize your SCSI drive under System 5.0 but can under Prodos 8, you undoubtedly either failed to install the SCSI driver or else disabled it. (Most likely the former.) Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN 32 Hillside Avenue | Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500 (203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
MAR21AA@TECHNION.BITNET (Uri Srebro) (10/26/89)
The driver was probably insatled corectly, since GSOS does check the HD o n bootup (at the thermometer screen) and so does the finder (after displaying t he 3.5 disk icon). Nathan Srebro | (Uri Srebro ) Haifa, Israel | (Technion, Haif, Israel ) MR2 1AA @ Technion.BITNET