Re: upgrading SCSI drive on Apple II cx ?

[Mike Morton <mdragon@eagle.ptialaska.net>]

Or better yet, just get 7.3.5 of Apple's formatter and change that one byte
that will let you format all drives.  Look on the internet for it. Use
Infoseek and type "formatting scsi hard drives"

David Matthew Wood wrote:

> DBC wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to put a larger SCSI drive in my neighbours Apple IIcx,
> > currently running a 40MB Quantum ProDrive SCSI.
> >
> > I've got several SCSI drives available to me, but none are recognized
> > by the cx.  I've booted the system from the System 7.1 install disk
> > and the utilities disk, drilled down to the Disk Utilities (or the
> > like) and tried to select the disk, but to no avail.  The SCSI
> > controller is 'hitting' the drive during the detection process, as I
> > see the drive activity light (on the base of the drive) responding in
> > time.
> >
> > With a little more digging around, I found a file or folder that
> > contained what looked like drive specs for about 50 different drives.
> > I'm wondering if it will only accept predefined drives?  If that's the
> > case, can I generate a definition for one of my drives, given the
> > various cylinder, head, sector information is well known?
> >
> > Forgive me if I've got any Apple terminology wrong, I've lived my life
> > in the Wintel and Unix worlds.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can afford,
> >
> > David = david_barber@pobox.com
>
> Well, since this is SCSI, (and esp. since it is a Mac) you shouldn't need
> to worry about drive paramaters.  As for formatting the drive, if it is
> not an Apple drive, you will need to purchase a 3rd party formatting
> utility.