q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) (04/14/90)
Guess, what just happened to me? My hard drive crashed! Ack. Mr. Fixit
couldn't 'fixit'. Oh well, I had a backup and I was able to restore
most of what I lost. While restoring, I ran into two problems that
really hindered my progress. They are not new ones, I had the same problems
when I first got my drive, but now seemed to be a good time to find out if
others have had these problems....
My Setup.
ROM01 Woz IIgs
Apple Rev 'C' SCSI Card
Ehman Engineering 30.5 meg (when formatted) Hard drive
2.25 megs of RAM
Problems
1. Apple's HDSC Partition software recognizes the drive as a 30 meg
drive in the menu where it asks you to select a drive, BUT, when
you actually partition it, it only allows you to partition 20 megs
of it. (two partitions of 10, 18&2, etc...) BUT, if you chose
one partition only, it will format it to 30 megs. (probably because
no partition data is written for that configuration.
Does anyone know why HDSC partition freaks out like that? Does it query two
different places when it determines capacity? The Ehman drive is really a
Mac SCSI drive but that shouldn't really matter should it?
2. System Disk 5.0.2, when the SCSI driver is installed on the disk, will
not boot from 3.5" drive. The thermometer will get to the end of the
bar and then BOINK!. An Ctrl-T<Rtn> gives me the text screen. I forget
the monitor status line. I don't think it is dependent on whether the
drive is powered up. Strangely enough, a 3.5" disk with System 5.0 and
the SCSI drives installed DOES BOOT FINE. I asked Dave Lyons and he didn't
seem to have the problem or know why I am having one.
Does anyone else have this symptom? Just wondering... Thanks for your time.
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