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SCSI2SD + Hard-Reset = No booting

GeekDot

Well-known member
Hi all!

This drives me crazy...  I have a SCSI2SD (recent firmware) in my IIci, Sys 7.5.3, all parameters set in "safety mode" (ie. SEAGATE vendor etc.) but formatted and setup with LIDO anyhow and everything's fine and shine...

...until I have to hard-reset the machine - which I have do a lot during current Carrera 040 CP hacking... as soon I've reseted my IIci (using the reset button) it somehow gets confused and cannot boot off the SD anymore, the SCSI2SD LED blinks one, Happy Mac, 2nd blink and then showing the crossed-disk icon.

After booting from a Sys 7.5 boot floppy and restarting it using the menu entry everything's ok again. Until the next hard-reset... 

Any Idea what this can be? It really slows me down in analyzing that damn CP...

Cheers, Axel

 

K55

Well-known member
What version? I have a v4 and v5 and haven't had that issue. V6 looked too complicated for its own good.

 

GeekDot

Well-known member
What version? I have a v4 and v5 and haven't had that issue.
Oops, sorry. Yes it's v5... about 3 months old. Works like a charm until the system is not shut down properly. 

When booting from floppy, there's nothing else need to be done. Just boot from floppy, immediately select "restart" from menu, floppy ejects, SCSI2SD boots just fine.

Voodoo... :evil:

 

Compgeke

Well-known member
I've actually got a similar issue with my v5 board. If power is improperly removed, it corrupts the OS. When attempting to boot from it you'll get happy mac -> back to grey screen -> happy mac -> repeat. Doesn't matter if it's system 6 or system 7.

Only real fix I had was to recopy the system folder over. Just booting from another device and coming back didn't fix it. 

 

joethezombie

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Hmm, no problems over here with a v5 board.  Hard reset simply reboots.  Is your SCSI2SD bus powered, or have you the molex connected?  Is the experimental disk cache enabled? I used the patched Apple utility to set mine up rather than LIDO.

 
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