Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpindda!tribby 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 Lines: 33 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 - - - - - ARPA: tribby%hpda@hplabs.HP.COM UUCP: hplabs!hpda!tribby