I used Apple IIs in the early 1980s, but for the last 25 yrs haven't. I recently purchased several Apple IIGS systems. One came with an Apple high speed SCSI card and Chinook hard drive. I have half a dozen 3.5" and 5.25" drives also. Problems are:
1. I can not get any of the systems to recognize the Chinook hard drive. It is in slot 7 (also tried slots 1 & 2 to no avail). Seems that I have to load the drivers but I get a message that tells me it requies GSOS 2.1, and apparently I do not have that version of the OS.
2. 3.5" drive is first in the chain, 5.25" drive is second in chain. System is set to boot from Slot 5. Boots from floppy in 3.5" fine, but 5.25" drive is not showing up on the desktop, with or without a disk in it. I've also tried setting the system to Scan for boot device, but 5.25" drive will not appear. Tried different drives, same issue.
3. Where can I get GSOS on 3.5" disk? Yes, I know about the availability of the disk images on Apple's website, but they require you to have a Mac which I don't. I've looked at the user groups I could find online, and no one seems to be offering GSOS copies on disk. Very frustrating!
4. Does anyone have working experience with the Reactive Microdrive IIgs IDE Controller which uses a 128MB CompactFlash card as a drive?
Many thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
Ken