From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI HD and Apple HS SCSI card
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:25:20 GMT
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon Apr 06 92 at 15:07:13 (EST)

> From: dougger@bluemoon.rn.com (Doug Stevenson)
> I'm using an Apple HS SCSI card to hook up a Maxtor 213 meg drive.  I am 
> using a custom made cable that will connect the male 50 pin in the back of 
> the drive (IBM internal drive) to the female RS 232 on the SCSI card.

The 25 pin D connector on the SCSI drive IS NOT AN RS 232 CONNECTOR!!!!!
 
> I can format this drive using almost any P8 util simply by choosing slot 7 
> drive 1 and it formats (albeit slowly).  Now the problem comes after that 
> when I try to read or write to disk.  There's always an I/O error.

Almost any? Specific programs please (and more likely than not they really
aren't formatting the drive). 
 
> GSOS does NOT recognize the drive at all.  I have the drivers installed, 
> but GSOS just looks at the drive and skips right over it so there's no way 
> I can format it because it is not given an icon.

I've encountered SCSI hard drives that couldn't be found under GS/OS....the
formatting of the hard disk was incorrect. I couldn't fix it using the Apple
Hi-speed SCSI card. I had to use my RamFAST card.

> This is, to say the least, making me very frustrated!!  I have 213 megs 
> sitting around doing nothing!  I feel that if I buy a RamFAST, the 
> problems will go away because I heard that the newer model hard drives 
> don't work too well with the Apple HS SCSI card.  Or maybe it's the custom 
> cable, but I doubt it.  Or it may even be the hard drive, but I don't see 
> what could be wrong with that.

I've not heard of any drive that WON'T work with the Apple HS SCSI card once
they're formatted properly. But the RamFAST is so nice anyway, that you'd be
better off with it.
 
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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
To: prophet@cheshire.oxy.edu (Dale LaFountain)
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Subject: Re: System 6 Icons question

> From: prophet@cheshire.oxy.edu (Dale LaFountain)
> Also, for the record, I have had System 6 freeze up on me, such that even
> the three or four-finger salute didn't work, and I had to power cycle the
> CPU.

Try disabling EasyAccess and/or CloseView. Most of the problem stems from
interactions of those two on other applications.
 
> Has anyone noticed any applications that forget to turn the graphics screen
> on when they start?  I.e., the game will come all the way up and I can
> start playing (I can hear the sounds and music associated with starting the
> game), but all I see on the screen is a block cursor on a text screen.  The
> one that I noticed this behavior with is SpaceFox.  I seem to remember
> hearing that there was some value I could poke using visit monitor that
> fixes this.  Any ideas why this happens and/or how to fix it?

Yes, Spacefox. Wonderful game. Works fine, but forgets to turn on the SHR
screen after the intro.....I use NiftyList and issue a _grafon command. Works
really easily. 
 
BTW, Speaking of Spacefox, I still haven't won the game, though I can get all
the way to the battlestation at the end on just about any give game. Sigh.
Spacefox has been eating up WAY too much of my time, lately. 
 
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