Re: SCSI drive setup problems

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

SUPRDAVE writes ...
> 
> for a winter project, ive decided to setup a hard drive for my //e to start
> cataloging all my disks. the //e was acting flaky, so i migrated everything to
> my gs. here's the problem now...
> my gs is
> rom 01
> 1 meg
> disk ][ controller in slot 6
> scsi board in slot 5
> its all cabled up to an old mac 40 meg drive that is known to work, since it
> had system 7 on it.
> i can boot the scsi setup disk and i can ID the 40 meg drive. i split it 20 meg
> each.
> however, i ran the hd test program off the setup disk and it seemed to hang. i
> let it run all night and the screen never changed except for a slowly spinning
> character
>   ( \ | / -- \ | / --) spinning.
> anyway, the partition program shows two 20 meg partitions.
> i booted apple system util disk and attempted to format the partitions, but it
> wont. program says error, cannot format for unknown reason, and then another
> time, the system crashed. when it tries to format, i heard access sounds for
> just a moment, so it tries to do something.
> scsi ID is set, drive is terminated to a mac external hard drive. connections
> are good.
> any ideas?

     If Slot 5 is set to "Your Card" in the Control Panel, the SCSI card
should work okay. Still, this Slot is an unusual place for a SCSI board
since you lose access to the Smart Port normally employed for connecting
diskette drives.

     It may be that your HD Test program expects the SCSI interface to
be in Slot 7. Or, in case you partitioned for HFS, the HD test may
expect to be checking ProDOS partitions. So, maybe your HD with two 20MB
partitions is okay.

     Regarding formatting- usually, once a drive is low-level formatted
and partitioned for ProDOS or HFS, that's it. You can put stuff on the
HD and use it. You may be permitted to repartition the HD; but, I'm
pretty sure that you are not permitted to format individual partitions.




Rubywand