--- Jim Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Help! Should I just toss it? Or is there some magic
> driver or formatting
> utility that will let me turn that free space into
> usable turf? Thanks to
> all who respond.
> -- Jim Scott

Somewhere, somehow, get access to a PC with a SCSI
controller that has a BIOS on it. (Ie, can boot
from SCSI hard drives.) The controller should be
able to low level format the drive. Usually during
bootup there will be a message on screen to press
a couple of keys to access the SCSI BIOS. Ctrl + A
for Adaptech, Ctrl + I for Initio controllers.

If that won't touch the drive, toss it. :) I have had
drives so screwed up that none of my pretty large
collection of Mac formatting tools would touch them
until I "nuked" them with my PC's SCSI controller.

The Mac platform just doesn't allow the user a low
enough level of access to the hardware when you could
really use it. ;)

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