Hello Cyrus, The larger drives will work just fine, as long as it is the standard 50-pin SCSI drive. The only thing you have to be aware of, is that you have to use a "cracked" version of the HD Setup program if it is not an original Apple-branded drive. You can download ready-made floppy disk images containing the "modified" HD setup from System7Today, link here:
http://main.system7today.com/articles/tutorials/disktools.html Hope this helps. // Peter 2009/5/3 Cyrus <[email protected]> > > Hello everyone, Just recently, I've had some time to play with my > Quadra 605. It works fine, but the HD and floppy were both broken. I > put in another floppy, and it boots just fine on various disk tools > disks. Ok so here's my problem: the smallest SCSI HD's I have > available are over 1Gb. I put in a 1Gb Seagate drive, and it spun up > and everything, but Disk Tool's HD setup or Disk First Aid didn't see > the drive. Can it even address drives this big? I don't think the SCSI > ID should be a problem, since there are no other SCSI devices present. > (Well I know about not using ID 7, I'm pretty sure it's not set on > that) > I also have an original DuoDock, and I put (I think) a 1.42Gb HD in > it, on SCSI ID 2, and it didn't recognize that either. That one is > already running OS 7.5.5, but I don't have SCSI set up or Disk First > Aid on it. One thought I had (for the Quadra) was to install an OS > from, say, a G3 Minitower, but I'm not sure which OS, because the only > one they'll both run is 8.1, and I don't have any OS8 install disks or > anything. > Thanks, any help would be appreciated, as I'd like to get my Q605 up > and running! (And more HD space for my 80Mb Duo 230...) > > Cyrus > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
