I recently purchased six used SCSI hard drives from a friend. Here is a rundown of them: One is an old 80mb apple 80SC quantum prodrive that has OS 7.5.2 installed along with a few other apps so I don't plan on using that in my S900 unless it crashes on me. Another is a 68 pin 2gig Seagate Hawk and seeing as the S900 scsi chain is 50 pin this is also a paper weight for me. The other four are a little more useful. Of these four there are two Quantum XP34300 4.1gig drives, one Digital RF/RZ26 1 gig drive, and one Quantum Fireball 1 gig drive, which works fine and is already installed so I don't need to find the info on it.
My problems are with the XP34300 and the RF/RZ26. First (and probably the easiest to solve - although I don't know how - is the RF/RZ26; I am able to initialize this with apple Disk Setup and once done it appears on my desktop. However I assume because Disk Setup already has my boot disk titled as "Untitled 2" and the new Fireball 1gig drive labled as "Untitled" and it is also naming the newly initialized RF/RZ26 as "Untitled", it does not show up again after I restart. I am however able to initialize it again though Disk Setup but the same thing always happens. The XP34300s however are a different story. I am only sometimes able to recognize them when scanning the SCSI bus in Disk Setup and when I do they say that they are unable to be initialized (it suggests that they may be write protected, but the only jumper on them is the busID jumper - is this ok?). One of the two makes a lot of clicking while it is being scanned. I then took and booted into my linux install bootstrap partition that I am currently using to load Linux on my old 2gig drive and as it loaded it recognized all five drives instantly. However, the three drives that I was having troubles with all went through a process of 'spinning up' that the other two drives did not. The RF/RZ26 was able to spin up fairly quickly but the XP4300s continued to spin up until they finally timed out. Also to note, all five drives are recognized in Linux as "ANSI SCSI revision: 02". After spinning up the one drive that makes all the clicks it continued to make clicks. Then Linux attempted to read the partition schemes on the disks. The one XP34300 that doesn't click returned the message "unknown partition map", the RF/RZ26 returned the same partition info as the two fully functioning drives, and the XP34300 that clicks continued to sit until it timed out and Linux setup started. In the Linux partition editor it did not allow me to choose the XP34300 that clicked but the other four were available. When I attempted to run the partition program on the non-clicking XP34300 I first attempted to read the partition map, it returned the error "no partition map available", so I attempted to initialize it but it returned the error "mac-fdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdc' for writing (no such device or address)". To explain that last error message, sd stands for scsi device and c is the particular device in question, so what it means is that it can't open the drive. Now I don't know what I should try. Any suggestions?? I really want to get at least one of the 4gig drives working. -Eric -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
