iamdigitalman
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Hi all. I was wondering how I should have the disk drives hooked up to my IIgs, and how many I can have. I have 3 5.25" drives, a 800k drive, and a external FDHD, which I tested and it works.
What order should I connect these? It seems the 3rd 5.25" drive does not work in this config (though it works by it's self and with another drive), as in GS/OS, only 2 of the 5.25" drives mount on the desktop. The FDHD only seems to want to work if it is the first drive, as if I put a disk in if it is the second drive, it won't mount. However, it will boot from the FDHD just fine.
I do have 2 5.25" controllers from my IIes I can spare, so maybe I could offload all the 5.25" drives to the card?
I checked in the manual, and there is nothing about what order they go in, or how many drives it can take.
Also, while I wait to try and find a SCSI card, I have a HD 20 drive for my Mac Plus, and it uses a DB-19 port, like the floppy drives, so I was wondering if I could use this on my IIgs, or if I might blow the port or drive. I have not seen anything about doing this anywhere, so I doubt it has ever been tried. The machine certainly has enough RAM, over 2mb.
What order should I connect these? It seems the 3rd 5.25" drive does not work in this config (though it works by it's self and with another drive), as in GS/OS, only 2 of the 5.25" drives mount on the desktop. The FDHD only seems to want to work if it is the first drive, as if I put a disk in if it is the second drive, it won't mount. However, it will boot from the FDHD just fine.
I do have 2 5.25" controllers from my IIes I can spare, so maybe I could offload all the 5.25" drives to the card?
I checked in the manual, and there is nothing about what order they go in, or how many drives it can take.
Also, while I wait to try and find a SCSI card, I have a HD 20 drive for my Mac Plus, and it uses a DB-19 port, like the floppy drives, so I was wondering if I could use this on my IIgs, or if I might blow the port or drive. I have not seen anything about doing this anywhere, so I doubt it has ever been tried. The machine certainly has enough RAM, over 2mb.