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From: isbell@athena.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
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Subject: It still doesn't work.  Is it me?
Message-ID: <1991May1.175608.22541@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 17:56:08 GMT
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I still can't get GS/OS to recognize my hard drive.

Here's the ongoing SCSI hell:

When I tried to use the SCSI installer included on the SCSI utilities to 
install the SCSI drivers, it didn't do anything to let me see the hard 
drive, but every time I tried to run an 8bit program it informed me that 
Prodos 8 was "not compatible" and forced a reboot.

With an uncorrupted 5.0.4 system, the watch stays on the screen for
a while during the Finder's search for the harddrive (assuming I've copied the
appropriate drivers, of course, without them I get a message telling me
that the SCSI card needs a SCSI driver.).  It appears that the 16 bit stuff
recognizes the partitions, but can't access them at all (I get a list of
the partitions from something like, say, Shrinkit GS, but any attempt to
actually catalog the partitions returns Invalid Device Number).

Strangely, I can launch an 8 bit program like the SCSI Utilities and partition
the drive or Copy II Plus and format the partitions if I wish.  In fact, I
can use Copy II Plus to copy things onto the drive and actually boot 8bit
stuff from it!  It is very, very slow in doing this though.

Anyway, I have:  Transwarp, Sonic Card, OctoRAM memory, and now this SCSI card.
I have all the switches on the card closed (although, I have tried it with
switch one open).  I got the power case from someone and the hardrive itself
is a Rodime 43M.  When I first hooked up the system, I could actually get
one of the partitions to pop up (it was previously owned by a GS user) and
I copied a few files I wanted from it (things I meant to download off the net
one day anyway) and proceeded to re partition the drive.  Now I can't find
any of it (I couldn't find one of the partitions in the first place).  I think
I'm going to scream.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Peace.
           "Love is like a snowmobile rushing across the tundra and then
            suddenly it flips over pinning you underneath.  At night, 
            the Ice Weasels come."
                                    -Matt Groening, "Love is Hell"

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