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Post #1 by miniMOJOman
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 27 Jul 2015 - 01:48
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/woz-iigs-w-ae-vulcan-20mb-hdd.2430/
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So I have been having a really hard time getting this IIgs to fully work properly.   It has the Vulcan 20mb Hard drive installed with upgraded power supply and Applied Engineering IDE card.  When I first got it the HDD was stuck and wouldnt even post.  After I removed the hard drive and lightly tapped it, it began trying to boot off of the hard drive into GS/OS.  When it would reach the end of the loading screen it would have an error, so I just kind of assumed that the data had been damaged and GS/OS should be reinstalled.  Well everytime I try to use a GS/OS boot disk just to boot to a desktop, it can never load and tells me not enough ram to load GS/OS... which I dont understand because it was already installed previously on this computer and had been given to me that way... so how did they get GS/OS.... oooohh I just had a thought as I was typing this... I remember reading that the vulcan came with GS/OS 4.0 instead of 6.0  maybe that is why it worked previously.... should I try to get some GS/OS 4.0 install disks????

Also I ordered 24 chips to add to the IIgs memory expansion, so that should give me enough ram for 6.0.. but in the meantime I want to get this fully working!! Any thoughts/ideas/etc??

Thanks!

mp.ls