Thanks for the tip about the adaptor. Currently I am unable to hook up these drives to a PC and Linux is not able to recognize a partition on either of the XP34300 drives so I doubt that there is some strange partition on there. Is there any program out there that is able to wipe a drive clean no matter what is on it so that I can then initialize it in Drive Setup? Or is there a better partitioning shareware software that might be able to do this?
-Eric --- "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 ===== Steve Hardy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains � Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
