jerryh@pro-lls.UUCP (Jerry Hewett) (01/14/89)
> [ kevin@csuchico.EDU (Kevin Ford) writes... ] > > I recently installed a 20 Meg CMS SCSI hard drive on my ][gs and it now > runs GS/OS. The CMS SCSI card is in slot 7, and when I put my Grappler+ > (circa 1985) parallel interface card in slot 1, I cannot boot from the hard > drive (the computer bombs after about 10 seconds), nor can I run any sys16 > file on it after booting Prodos 16 from the floppy. Everything runs fine > without the Grappler. You're not going to like this answer (I didn't either), but try moving the Grappler to slot 7 and your CMS interface card to slot 6. I had the same problems recently when I installed a CMS 20MB drive on a //e with the Apple parallel printer card. The system locked up completely unless the printer card was removed, and CMS "Technical Support" (cough, choke) was absolutely no help whatever. They swore up and down that their drive was fine, and that the problem was due to an "antique" interface card. When the system still wouldn't work after trying two other printer cards I came very close to returning the drive for a refund. Then, out of desperation, I tried moving the printer card to slot 7 and the CMS card to slot 6. Voila! It worked! It's kludgey, but it gets the job done -- as long as you're using software that can re-assign the printer to slot 7. Another word of advice: the latest CMS ROM's don't work on the ][+ (despite what CMS tech support says). You have to use the older ROM's, which require the drive to be up-to-speed before powering up the computer. ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!pro-lls!jerryh ProLine: jerryh@pro-lls BITNET: jerryh%pro-sol.cts.com@nosc.mil BIX: jerryh INET: jerryh@pro-sol.cts.com voice: 714/676-1940 UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!pro-lls!jerryh modem: 714/676-7080