Re: [WinMac] SCSI-2 HD on a Mac?

Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:57:44 -0800 (PST)

Hrm. i think you'll need something like FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, at
least the Personal Edition. (http://www.fwb.com/)

i used HDT-PE with this ancient Seagate 2GB that once was in an old
Solbourne (multi-processor Sparc before Sun made 'em), and it works
beautifully.

i think Apple's Drive Setup will only work with the drives you buy
from Apple, or maybe some other ones, if you hack the heck out of it.

Better to get HDT. It's going for $60 these days. Kind of a bummer
that you can't just plug and play, but hey, cheaper than buying a
_real_ Apple hard drive. (Wait, i don't think Apple is in the HD
business anymore. :)

--Darryl

> Hi all,
>
> I've been a silent observer on the list for several months and the
> assistance is bountiful and mostly agreeable. Well, now I have a
> question.
>
> I purchased a 9 Gb Micropolis SCSI-2 Int. HD a while back and wanted
> to connect it to my PowerMac 6500. Of course it won't fit inside the bay
> but I physically connected it via a SCSI adapter to the internal cable,
> ran power, configured the jumpers to the best of my knowledge and from
> info on the web, etc. Well, when I started up the machine, the drive
> would click a little (doing startup checks I suppose) then the mac would
> finish booting and nothing would happen. I tried using SCSI Probe, Mt.
> Everything, Drive Setup, and PC Exchange. Nothing would recognize that
> it even existed on the chain. Right now it's a 5 lb. paperweight doing
> nothing. Any ideas?
>
> I can't take it back anywhere because I got it from someone over a
> newsgroup (one of those good price for the size deals), paid for COD
> (oops). Chances are I got duped into buying a bad drive or something and
> I can live with that. If it isn't bad I want to find out why it isn't
> appearing on the desktop or being recognized at all. I am unsure of its
> format or if it even is.
>
> Has anyone dealt with SCSI-2 to SCSI connections in a Macintosh? If
> so, what did you do to make it work? I know a fair bit about SCSI but
> I've reached my wits end on what to do here. Comments are appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Michael Peters

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