Re: Initializing a new hard drive

[John Wilson]

Hi Art. I don't know how you were able to get the other SCSI drive 
formatted using Drive Setup. As far as I know, only SCSI drives with an 
Apple ROM can be seen by DS. I think you'll have to use a third party 
formatting app. Most people think Hard Disk SpeedTools is the best. Go 
to:

http://www.intechusa.com/HDInfo.html

and you can download a copy.
Good luck, John
On Nov 15, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Art Sable wrote:

I recently acquired a nice IBM 18 MB 7200 rpm SCSI-2 hard drive, for 
using as an auxiliary external drive on my 7300>G3 running OS 8.6. I 
put the drive into an enclosure with a power supply, and connected it, 
properly terminated, to a a virgin SCSI-2 controller in a PCI slot in 
the computer.  I intended to wipe all data from the drive with Norton, 
then initialize and format it and install a new driver with Apple's 
Drive Setup, which came with OS 8.6.  I have done this before, and it 
worked.

But this time I couldn't do it.  After starting up, the new drive does 
not even show up on the desktop.  But it is recognized properly by the 
SCSI Probe control panel.  Apple System Profiler recognizes it but 
issues a warning saying "No media mounted in this drive" or something 
like that, and shows the space in the drive as zero. Obviously I 
cannot work on this new drive if the computer doesn't acknowledge its 
existence.

I have another SCSI-2 drive on this same computer, connected as above 
to another SCSI-2 PCI controller, and it works fine.  I think that the 
first drive may have already been initialized with a non-Apple utility 
and thus recognized by the computer; I wiped off the original 
initialization along with everything else and then was able to 
re-initialize it with Drive Setup.

I will appreciate any constructive suggestions.  How do you go about 
building a raft when you are out in the open ocean?

--Art Sable


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