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From: tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS and the Sider: HELP!
Message-ID: <6230015@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 16:40:41 GMT
Organization: HP Information Networks Group/Cupertino CA
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I tried bringing my system up with GS/OS last night and ran into a couple
of problems... 

My GS has a 10mb Sider in slot 7, and 1 meg of expansion memory. There are
3.5 and 5.25 disk drives connected from the disk port. The GS is set 
to "scan" for boot-up, so it finds the Sider card and boots from there. 

When I booted the system from the GS/OS system.disk in the 3.25 drive, it 
did not recognize either the Sider or 5.25 ProDOS volumes; the Finder 
did not list them and they did not appear from APW's "show units" command.

One time, I started "Boot Into ProDOS" from the Sider startup menu, then
interrupted it by a RESET and PR#5 while the Sider's access light was on. 
That time the Filer gave this message when it started:
      
         This volume was initialized for another
         operating system and can't be read by GS/OS.
         Do you want to initialize it?
       /-------\                /------------\
       | Eject |                | Initialize |
       \-------/                \------------/

I chose the "eject" button. The Filer did not show the first Sider ProDOS 
volume, but it recognized the second volume without any problem!

How do I get GS/OS to recognize my Sider?
Do I have to re-initialize either or both Sider volumes? 
Where are the new disk utilities documented?
Why doesn't the new system.disk boot up to recognize 5.25 disks?

--Dave Tribby
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