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From: pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Patrick Gannon)
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Subject: Re: Startup from Hard Drive?
Keywords: HD, startup, seagate, DMA, etc
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Date: 8 Oct 90 14:44:23 GMT
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toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>The High Speed SCSI card insists on starting up from the first partition it
>sees -- this means drive 1. If you copied your system disk with an 8 bit
>based copier then many of the important files will have been corrupted; they
>have 'resource forks' and must be copied with the GS finder (possibly other
>programs but I don't know the list). Run installer from the floppy that came
>with the card (important!) and install SCSI HD on your floppy boot disk (if
>it will fit...), reboot, and now your floppy system will see the HD. Use
>installer or finder (if you want a straight copy of the floppy based system)
>to put the system disk on the first partition (the first partition icon that
>pops up in the finder). Your SCSI card will now boot from the HD properly.
>
>If you still have problems let me know, I have such a setup working perfectly
>(never had any problems that weren't obviously me screwing up) for some time
>now.

OK, I will . . .

The floppy system does see the hard drive.  In fact, the terminal
program I am running now is *on* the hard drive.  I just re-formattedthe
drive, and I have the same problems.  First, I format the drive using
the utility included with the SCSI card.  Second, I install all of the
drivers from the SCSI utility disk to the hard disk, resulting in a
system folder showing up in the 1st partition of the hard disk.  Third,
I copy basic.launcher, basic.sytem, icons, and prodos from the system
floppy by clicking and dragging from within the finder.  Fourth, I set
the boot slot to 7 (the HD slot) and restart.  It begins to load, but at
some point while the red line is getting longer on the startup screen,
it dies and I get:  Fatal System Error 0308 (I wrote it down this time).

It did not help matters when I copied the system folder off of the
system floppy into the system folder on the hard drive either.

>
>Todd Whitesel
>toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

Thanks for any more advice,
Patrick Gannon	
pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Internet)
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