Apple IIGS: Using with a MicroNet Hard Drive



I'm having a problem getting an Apple IIGS to talk to a MicroNet SCSI 30MB
HD. I have an Apple High-Speed SCSI card, MicroNet HD, and a 1MB Apple
IIGS. I also have v2.0 of the High-Speed SCSI Card Utilities.

Although my Apple II SCSI Utilities see the HD, I can't get GS/OS (v5.0.2)
to see the drive.

Assuming the hard drive is compatible with the Apple IIGS (check with
MicroNet) here's what you need to do:

Make a new bootable System Tools disk, using the Installer from the SCSI
utilities disk, and specifically install the SCSI driver from the new
utilities disk that came with the SCSI card. This makes the disk realize
there is a SCSI device attached. As the system starts up, it looks for
SCSI devices and if it finds one that should be readable but is not, it
will then ask if you want to initialize.

Make sure the slot the SCSI card is installed in is properly set in the
Control Panel. (That slot should say "your card".)


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012