Ahhh, some very strange mistakes.....
I have a Macintosh SE with System 6.0.8. I formatted and partitioned
the drive using Lido.
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The drive spins. SCSI probe recognizes the drive properly but every
time I open up Lido that error appears.
-- Alex
Am 01.09.2009 um 06:26 schrieb tortoise:
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> On Aug 30, 2:42 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> after having formatted my Seagate ST51080N 1 GB
>
> What utility did you use for this ? What computer is it anyway ? What
> system software ?
>
>> I wanted to create
>> partitions on it. I started Lilo to do this.
>
> Usually you partition with the formatter. I've never seen Lilo for
> macs, that's the Intel Linux bootloader's name.
>
> Intel has fdisk partitioner and mac has pdisk, which has a mac version
> which does allow edit partition table, but if it gets corrupted you
> are in trouble. But if it works then next boot into macos it will ask
> you to format the partition in the allowed kinds (hfs, dos, whatever).
>
> After a rebott there were
>> no volumes. So I opened Lilo again but now it just says "OSErr = 5
>> Bad SCSI Command: phase error." Neither Lilo nor Apple's SD HD Setup
>> want's to do anything.
>>
>> Both the termination and the connection are ok. Is the disk "dead"?
>>
> Is it spinning ? Are the fasteners all tight and snug and so forth ?
>
> If you have disk utility it should see the drive, and it may spin it
> up. If you have system profiler, it might show it too. I use 8.1 which
> has both but theye can exist in System7 too. If you have SCSI Probe
> you can try that as well.
>
> Although others have said SD HD is OK even patch for third part
> drives, I use either a later version of disk utility (from 8.5.1 works
> with 8.1) or a third party commercial tool.
>
>
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