--- "Eric D. Hedekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Eric. First you should know that there are adapters
for converting 68 and 80 opins drives to 50 so that 68
pin drive isn't a paperweight. It'll probably run you
$10-15.
Second, I just went through the same process as you
did. I had an 80 pin SCSI Seagate that I had been
using in a PC, and I wanted to use it in a Mac. It was
formatted as a Linuz drive and the Drive Setup didn't
recognize it. I put it back ib the PC and reformatted
it as a PC disk, removed it from the PC and reattached
it to a Mac. From there I was able to format the drive
quite nicely and it mounts just fine too.
I don't think the drives having the same name hurts
anything at all. They do need different SCSI IDs
though, but I don't think the computer would boot at
all if you had duplicates. (Still it never hurts to
check.) My guess is that the drive still has a Linux
partition on it (which is why it shows up in Linux),
and you need to get that off of there before the S900
can really see it and mount it. I'd do it to all of
them that aren't already formatted Mac to begin with.
Then format with Mac stuff.
Steve
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Steve Hardy
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