Re: Locked scsi disk

Thanx Bill and dan I will try evry option. Michel PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Locked scsi disk

> Oh, nutz, forgot about this, hacking Drive Setup to use non-Apple drives: > > > dan k Another thing to think about is that some hard drives are locked by moving a jumper on the circuit board. ~~ Bill Art page:

Re: Locked scsi disk.

Oh, nutz, forgot about this, hacking Drive Setup to use non-Apple drives: dan k -- . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 .

Re: Locked scsi disk

You need a formatting utility other than Apple's. I've used LaCie's SilverLining for years, but I'm not sure of the current OS requirements. You can download the current version here: It's described as an updater, but I think it's just

Locked scsi disk.

As everybody might know , one of the biggest problems with older Powerbooks is a good working scsi harddisk. I have a a 500 mb scsi disk (in a 540c)that cannot be initialized. Disk utilities(tried 7.6 and 8.1 floppy as norton utilities aswell)sees it but fails to do so.The disk is locked. Is there