I have similar hardware in my spare parts that you do, but haven't found the time to try it out, but one thing I can share is that the disk formatting software you choose to use is important.
Apple used to get drives from Quantum, IBM etc. with either custom firmware and/or specific models, which they then put in hard-coded lists in their drive formatting software, so that most Apple drive formatting software would only format Apple OEM drives (the AU/X drive formatting software was one of the exceptions). You can use ResEdit to modify Drive Setup etc. to be permissive and format anything however. I keep several versions of modified Drive Setups in my archives (along with instructions), but they're not handy at the moment. You'll want to look into that if you want to be able to boot from compact flash in an IDE to SCSI converter. Either that, or use third-party disk formatting software like Anubis of FWB Drive Toolkit etc. - Nate On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this topic has been covered (from what I can see, possibly > unsuccessfully) in the past, however I am attempting this holy grail > of modifications for storage and noise reasons, and because my 20mb > Qisk is on it it's last legs. > > I have obtained over the last couple of months an new SCSI drive > enclosure, a SCSI to IDE converter, an IDE to CF adaptor and a 1GB CF > Card. > > I put this lot together, plugged it in to my Plus (well you gotta > try :-) booted from floppy and tried to run drive set up. No dice, No > supported SCSI device detected. > > So I plugged it into my G3 266 PowerMac and ran Disk Set up on that, > and it reported the CF Card, but said unsupported drive cannot be > initialised. > > I then swapped the CF card out into a USB attachment thingy and > plugged it into my 2006 MacPro running S/L, That could see the card > and allowed my to format it as Mac OS Extended (journaled). > > I then put the card back in the SCSI enclosure and went back to my G3 > and started that under Jaguar, It couldn't see the disk, I swapped it > back to the USB thingy and it the could see the drive I reformatted it > as HFS with OS9 drivers. > > I put it all back together in the SCSI enclosure and then rebooted the > G3 in 9.2.1, and the G3 could see the drive on the desktop and would > allow me to copy files to and from the drive and even install System 6 > on it, however in disk set up, it still said unsupported drive cannot > be initialised, even though at this point under 9.2.1 it was working > perfectly. > > I then plugged it back into the Plus, but as you can guess I still got > the No SCSI supported device present message. > > Has anyone managed to get CF working on a Plus or any old world Mac > for that matter? > > Many Thanks > > Charles > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
