#: 18592 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    24-Aug-93  20:08:14
Sb: MM/1 I/O Boards
Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
To: Kevin Pease 70516,1633

Kevin,

   I also can't boot from the hard drive (or from floppy either if the hard
drive is the default device). This is a problem I've had since I got the I/O
board. Paul made numerous promises to replace the board but that never
happened. The board originally had a #8 mask SCSI chip on it. I've replaced it
with a #6 mask (have a couple more that I got from a Western Digital
distributor) but it still won't reliably boot. All's fine if I boot to a floppy
 system but the system locks up about 90 percent of the time if I attempt to
access the hard drive. If the system does sucessfully boot from floppy and
chd/chx to the hard drive, everything works fine. When I try to boot from one
of my hard drives (I do have the updated ROMS), I get the following message.

OS-9/68K System Bootstrap Attempting to boot from Floppy. Floppy disk drive not
ready. Attempting to boot from Hard Disk. Attempting to boot from Rom. NO
kernel found. Boot failed, error status $00F6

At this point, I have to turn the computer off to try again. By the way, my
hard drives are a Quantum 105 and a Seagate ST138N-1 and it makes no difference
which one is set up as drive 0.

Thanks,

Ernest Withers (MM/1 serial #120848)