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Newbie lost in front of a IIgs
Posted by: superpantoufle on 2009-03-18 04:57:26
Thanks!

Next question (I haven't tried yet, just wondering): the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right? Assuming my SCSI card works (which I haven't tried), will it be ok to format an external 200 Mb SCSI disk, install GS/OS on it and use it to store and catalog all the 200+ floppies that are laying around?

I'm also exploring the KEGS route, which is pretty funny!
Posted by: david__schmidt on 2009-03-18 09:13:50
...the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right?
Right.

Assuming my SCSI card works (which I haven't tried), will it be ok to format an external 200 Mb SCSI disk, install GS/OS on it and use it to store and catalog all the 200+ floppies that are laying around?
Yes. You'll need to use your SCSI card's firmware or other software to partition and format the drive, though. ProDOS 16 will see at most 32 megabytes per partition, so it'll need to be divided up. But again, your SCSI card came with a way to do that. Which card do you have?
Posted by: superpantoufle on 2009-03-18 11:23:42
It's an Apple II SCSI card, of which I just the found the manual here. But according to that manual, I have to use software provided with the SCSI peripheral to format and partition it.

The disk I intended to use is an old standard 200 Mb formatted in HFS I found a long time ago.

Can you advise me some third-party formatting software?

And from what I read in the card's manual, I could only have four 32 Mb volumes. It seems to mean that my 200 Mb disk will soon become a 128 Mb, but hat's no big deal!
Posted by: david__schmidt on 2009-03-18 11:51:49
The software for your card is here.

You can format the "rest" of the disk with HFS once you've got GS/OS up and running (and updated to a non-buggy HFS driver) to recover the other 128M.
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