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From: pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Patrick Gannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Fatal System Errors
Summary: 0308.  It's got me down :-(
Keywords: pls hlp me
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.231424.6966@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 90 23:14:24 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Organization: Masochistic Institute of Technology
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Rom 01, AE GSRamPlus, Seagate 46M SCSI drive.

Here's a little (possibly familiar) story:

I put together my hard drive, installed scsi drivers to my system
floppy, installed scsi drivers on my hard drive, and installed "latest
system files" onto the hard drive.  I set the startup slot to 7 (where
the hard drive is), and restart.

It hummmmms along for a bit, showing the red line getting longer and
finally, pops into that medium blue background with the little white
apple bouncing back and forth, telling me I have experienced (yet
another) fatal system error 0308.  If I press space while it is booting,
it gives the "Welcome to the World of the GS/OS" message, then fills
the screen with garbage before any modules/programs are loaded.

Can someone please tell me why this (not being able to start up from the
HD) would happen, although the hard drive works great to just store and
run programs (once I have booted with another disk)? 

Is this possibly a problem with the new Apple High Speed SCSI card I
just put in? (the computer's id is 7, the hd's id is 6)

I have reformatted, re-installed, and re-copied everything.  I even went
out and got a new copy of the system (5.0.2).  I asked everyone I know
up here.  We are all stuck.  This is *very* annoying.

Please help me out.

Thanks,
Patrick Gannon	
pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Internet)
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