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From: spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Two questions
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.073212.2278@wrkof.incom.de>
Date: 8 Sep 90 07:32:12 GMT
Organization: Ing. Buero Winfried Koenig, Offenbach
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Hi you Apple II folks all around!!!
  
I would like to post two problems that have been reported by friends
of mine in the last few days:
   
1) One friend tried to use a Laser 800KB Unidisk-compatible disk drive
connected via the UCD on his IIgs under GS/OS (System 5.02).  On boot-
up, the System popped up a message stating something like: Unidisk re-
quires a driver. Please install driver and reboot system". He did that
and rebooted but the message still popped up. Of course the driver was
turn on (active) using the Finder's IconInfo dialog. 
Does someone use this configuration on his IIgs??? Is there a special
driver needed (I think the system will use a generated driver if no
special driver is available...). Is there a special Laser 3.5"-driver
available???
  
2) Recently, another friend of mine bought a Seagate ST-1096N SCSI 
harddisk (3,5", 85MByte, 18ms) and planned to use that driver with
his old Revision C Apple SCSI card on his IIgs. Formatting and parti-
tioning with the Advanced Disk Utilities worked fine, and even in-
stalling the System Softwar with the Installer caused no problem. Then
he copied AppleWorks 3.0 onto the harddisk and launched that from a
8Bit program launcher. That also worked OK. But when he tries to boot
the harddisk into GS/OS the system crashes on bootup after 3/4 of the
red boot thermometer into the monitor. I think that Apples SCSI driver
must have some timing problems with that very fast harddisk... Does
someone know more about that problem??? Perhaps Dave or Matt, haven't
you got some reports on that???
 
Thanks in advance for all replies!
Yes, the IIgs is still alive in Germany!!!
---> Apple II forever! <---
    
Martin Georg