Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!hp-sde!hpcuhb!hpindda!tribby From: tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GS/OS and the Sider: HELP! Message-ID: <6230019@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 4 Oct 88 01:23:12 GMT References: <6230015@hpindda.HP.COM> Organization: HP Information Networks Group/Cupertino CA Lines: 34 I visited several Apple dealers this weekend to check out the "end user" documentation for GS/OS. (I had already purchased GS/OS and the internal documentation from APDA.) At Computer Attic (about a mile south of Apple headquarters, on DeAnza Blvd.), the salesman said he didn't expect to receive copies of GS/OS for several more weeks. Computers Plus (Fremont & Mary in Sunnyvale) had installed GS/OS on their demo system, but were having problems with the hard disk. They had about 3 copies of the "end user" GS/OS package (two disks and two manuals neatly packaged in a box) they were selling for ~$39, but they had not opened any of the packages so they couldn't show me the manuals. (If the technician couldn't fix their hard disk problem on Monday, he would probably open up one of the packages and read the manuals.) Priority 1 (El Camino in Sunnyvale) had GS/OS on their demo system, and the salesman was very helpful. He suggested running BASIC to get GS/OS to recognize the Sider; I tried that when I got home (booted up from 3.5" floppy into the Finder & Sider volumes are not listed; run BASIC; say BYE; when Finder restarts, /HARD1 and /HARD2 are available!). As far as turning off the 5.25" drive so the Finder doesn't keep accessing it when there is no disk inserted, he suggested going to the control panel and indicating the drive was running off of a card rather than the smart port. (A reboot would be required to change it back.) He didn't have copies of GS/OS to sell, but he got the store's two manuals and let me read them in the store. I found they were tutorial-oriented, with not much information beyond what I had already figured out. One thing the manual confirmed for me: the advanced disk utility is not of much use unless you have a SCSI hard disk that you want to partition. --Dave T. - - - - - ARPA: tribby%hpda@hplabs.HP.COM UUCP: hplabs!hpda!tribby