External SCSI Hard Drives
OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my garage but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard drives I would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to a mac machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or mount the hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color classic etc would be best for testing them. spokaneval...@juno.com Make sure the temperature's always just right with a new thermostat. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsJVCmOUehQpF2Z2YeWHCLjTTppszpyJR3lu32PX9o4Onn6lMDPJio/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: External SCSI Hard Drives
- Original Message > From: "spokaneval...@juno.com" > > > OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my > garage but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard > drives I > would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. > Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to a > mac > machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or mount > the > hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color > classic etc would be best for testing them. > > Well, you need to have a bootable Mac with an external SCSI port. This includes most if not all Vintage 68K Mac's and all PowerMac's thru the beige G3 and beyond if it has a SCSI card. Then you will need the appropriate SCSI cable to connect the drive. If the drive is properly formated it should mount without any special key strokes. If it does not mount go to HD SC Setup, Drive Setup or Disk Utilites depending on what Mac OS you are using and see if the external is recognized. If no joy, report back. --glen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: External SCSI Hard Drives
hooking them up to a PC with a SCSI card is also a good way of testing the drives, if you got an old P2 box laying around and a cheap Adaptec card (at least on Adaptec cards) it will do a low level format, which checks the drive sector-by-sector, and wipes out everything at least once-over. a drive that spins up yet appears to be junk when installed in a mac, can sometimes be "fixed" using this method too (wiping out the apple partition map or whatever) its how i got my Mac Classic running again after a fouled format On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, glen wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message > > From: "spokaneval...@juno.com" > > > > > > > OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my > > garage but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard > drives I > > would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. > > Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to > a mac > > machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or > mount the > > hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color > > classic etc would be best for testing them. > > > > > > Well, you need to have a bootable Mac with an external SCSI port. This > includes most if not all Vintage 68K Mac's and all PowerMac's thru the beige > G3 and beyond if it has a SCSI card. Then you will need the appropriate SCSI > cable to connect the drive. > > If the drive is properly formated it should mount without any special key > strokes. If it does not mount go to HD SC Setup, Drive Setup or Disk > Utilites depending on what Mac OS you are using and see if the external is > recognized. If no joy, report back. --glen > > > > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: External SCSI Hard Drives
If they are not apple branded hds you will probably need HD SC Setup 3.01 (A/UX) which is a hacked version which doesn't require the "Macintosh Header". Look at http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html Which is here - http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/oldmac.html I have used this to format non mac scsi drives Good luck On 8/8/09 12:42 PM, "spokaneval...@juno.com" wrote: > > OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my > garage but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard drives > I would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. > Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to a mac > machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or mount the > hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color > classic etc would be best for testing them. > > > spokaneval...@juno.com > > > Make sure the temperature's always just right with a new thermostat. Click > now! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsJVCmOUehQpF2Z2YeWHCLjTTppsz > pyJR3lu32PX9o4Onn6lMDPJio/ > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: External SCSI Hard Drives
Wolf: i have used your advice about the Adaptec card and it is working very well. forgot all about the card working with a PC.. Papa Bear On Aug 8, 8:21�pm, Lee Tucker wrote: > If they are not apple branded hds you will probably need HD SC Setup 3.01 > (A/UX) which is a hacked version which doesn't require the "Macintosh > Header". �Look athttp://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html > Which is here -http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/oldmac.html > > I have used this to format non mac scsi drives > > Good luck > > On 8/8/09 12:42 PM, "spokaneval...@juno.com" wrote: > > > > > > > OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my > > garage �but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard > > drives > > I would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. > > Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to a > > mac > > machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or mount > > the > > hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color > > classic etc would be best for testing them. > > > spokaneval...@juno.com > > > > > Make sure the temperature's always just right with a new thermostat. Click > > now! > >http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsJVCmOUehQpF2Z2YeWH... > > pyJR3lu32PX9o4Onn6lMDPJio/- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
