>Speaking of hard drives, I have had a problem with my Duo since I bought
>it. It has a 240 hard drive, which I don't think is original. Anyway, when
>I try to sleep it, or spin it down, it does so immediately (which my wife's
>duo doesn't) and I get a message on my screen that says, "You have removed
>a drive that is needed. Put it back or risk losing data", or something to
>that effect. Has anybody had this happen to them? How can I fix it. The
>drive has Silverlining drivers, and I have not been able to install Apple
>drivers on it, even after reformatting, but I don't know if that's the
>problem. Any advice? If necessary, I'm willing to open the duo and see what
>brand it is. Again, TIA.
Assuming it's an original Duo drive, it would originally have shipped in a
270c or 280, and is probably a Conner. It could also be from a 500 series
Powerbook. Regardless, any Apple-ROM'd drive will take the Apple driver.
The spindown problem you're seeing is almost certainly a lack of support
for sleeping that drive in the Silverlining driver, and the best thing to
do would be to switch back to the Apple driver. Unfortunately Apple has
never provided an easy way to do this short of wiping and repartitioning
the drive, so you'll need to boot the Duo from some other device, whether a
floppy, CD, or other external SCSI volume. Alternately you can also do it
from another Mac that sees the Duo's hard drive in SCSI disk mode, if
you're able to do that.
If the Apple utility says the disk is unsupported when you try to do this,
it's talking about the drive hardware and firmware, not the Silverlining
software driver. You can work around that by turning on the hidden feature
of Apple HD Setup that allows it to format any SCSI drive (a
well-documented one-byte Resedit patch). Or you may be able to use a later
version of Drive Setup, which certainly works on a 68040, but might not on
a 68030.
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