At 10:48 PM +0000 3/19/2003, mark wrote: >I used PC SCSI drives in Macs lots of time without any problems. However I >think there can be a problem with drives that have come out of (I think) >Compaq servers. Something they do to them means they won't always work in >another machine PC or Mac. I think its some sort of low level format. I've >also heard of very old drives that have had the same data on them fore years >can have some sort of a memory effect, where the data can't be erased from >them and thus the drives can't be reformatted. With all SCSI drives though, >some like being on certain SCSI ID's better than others. Try them one at a >time until you get one recognised.
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