Apple II gs problem - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Sep 1999

In a message dated 9/10/99 6:16:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
owad(a)applefritter.com writes:

...
  >  I just picked up a nice Apple II gs system but I
can't make it work.  It
  >keeps saying "check starttup device". I've tried several disk drives
and
  >five different disks that should be bootable. Can anyone tell me more  about
...
  what it's
looking for or what I might be doing wrong?  I've never used one
of these so I'm not familar with it.   
  Is the system attempting to read the disk?  If not, you probably need to 
  make some changes in the control panel.  Access it by pressing 
  Option-Control-Reset immediately after turning on the system.  IIRC, the 
  changes you want to make will be in the "Slots" menu, and involve which 
  slots are used for boot-up.

  Tom Owad
   you can access the control panel at any time. if you are using a disk ][ 
controller card, you have to set slot 6 for 'your card' i believe. otherwise, 
you will have to change it for the onboard controller in case you are using 
that to run your disk drives. 

d