Re: [WinMac] automount Mac SCSI HD

From: jason (nonsequiter19[at]hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 14:41:16 PST

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    same extensions?
    same scsi bus?
    built in scsi, or pci card?
    tried a new card?
    tried reseating the old one?

    i know this particular mac had issues with more than one device on the IDE
    channels, perhaps there's a scsi equivalent of same.. a lobotomized version
    of the standard...

    HTH

    ~J

    >
    >We recently purchased some larger SCSI disks in order to give three of
    >our designers more storage capacity on their beige G3 desktop Macs. The
    >new SCSI hard drives are not being used as a boot drive, just as a
    >secondary drive. All the designers have the original beige G3 desktop
    >that's 233MHz with Mac OS 8.6. They purchased three 9GB Quantum Atlas V
    >drives that are SCSI from Mac Warehouse.
    >
    >We installed one and it worked fine. Then the next one we installed
    >would not automatically mount. I can use SCSI Probe to mount it after
    >the computer boots up however and then it's fine. I used the latest
    >version of Drive Setup 1.7.3, updated the drivers and low level
    >formatted the HD. When that didn't work I tried installing the Mac OS
    >on it even though I didn't need it on there. That didn't work either.
    >What am I missing? These are identical computers and identical hard
    >drives.
    >
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    > Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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