I find Hard Disk Toolkit buggy and unstable...but that's just my experience. I prefer to stay very far away from it. Using the 'patched' Disk Utility should be OK though (I've used it.) SCSI Probe is by Adaptec.
--Dave On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 12:22 -0700 3/18/09, jdlanza wrote: >>I'm getting some weird behavior from a couple of Quantum SCSI drives I >>purchased in the past few months. They're intended for a couple of >>compact Macs that I have, but I can't get them formatted. They spin >>up, but report "<no disc>" in Disk Utility and cannot be formatted. >>Norton reports that the drive is not HFS. > > FWB Hard Disk Toolkit. They're out of business but a friend dropped > by with an updated version 4.5 to my older version that was given him > by a dealer who declared it abandonware. I recently found FWB's > CD-ROM toolkit and I think it came from a continuing FWB site for > free. > > Apple's Disk Utility originally refused to work with disks that were > not sold by Apple. A fix for that has been around. You should be able > to find a fixed version with a search. > > SCSI probe, Symantic I think, has long been free and should be easy to find. > > All of those talk to the hardware. Norton talks only to mounted hardware. > > As others have said you do need to get the SCSI ID's properly set > before anything will talk to them. > -- > > --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
