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From: bsherm@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Bob Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS and the Sider: HELP!
Message-ID: <631@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 88 21:50:42 GMT
References: <6230015@hpindda.HP.COM>
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in article <6230015@hpindda.HP.COM>, tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby) says:
> 
> 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. 
> 
If your Sider is NOT a SCSI device, good luck using GS-OS.. I understand that
it even leaves Apples own Profile drives out in left field. Of course I
guess that you could try writing your own driver routines for the Sider..

On the other hand, you could contact the Sider folks, and tell them that you
supported their product, and now it's time for them to give you some
support in getting their product to operate correctly.. perhaps they have
either a patch, or new rom, or an upgrade policy to offer..

Regarding the 5.25 inch Apple drives, yes, they work just fine with
GS-OS, even the old disk II drives work, since they are the ones I am
using with GS-OS.. A look at the GS-OS documentation will explain how
to install them, and then turn them on or off at will.. That makes it 
very easy when you don't need the 5.25's online, so that the finder does not
waste time checking them every time...
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