Seagate SCSI II 240Meh HD doesn't work on IIGS

[scd@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Stephen Davidson)]

G'day All,
Basically the following is my recent experience with
not being able to format nor partition a Seagate SCSI II HD.

I was recently after a 240M HD and found a good offer
for a 245M Seagate SCSI II HD that works with Macs. I had to
lump my IIGS down to the store to test it out.

I'm using a ROM 1 GS with AE GSRAM+ 5Meg memory card and an Apple
High Speed SCSI card.

After booting up from a Sys 6.01 floppy, the Seagate HD icon
appeared onm the desktop OK. I could open the drive to get a window
appearing no probs, showing 243M available. Beaut I thought.

I tried to format it, to partition it with Prodos, using the Advanced
Disk Utility from Sys 6.01. The HD appeared OK with 2 partitions.
One I assumed to be a Mac driver, so I deleted it, and increased the
other to 245M. I pressed the partiton button. I was asked if I wanted
to hard format (low level format) the drive. I clicked OK.
The computer froze. No partitioning nor formatting occured.

I rebooted, launched ADU and the HD didn't appear when I clicked
around.

I launched the P8 utilities that came with the HS SCSI card. It
saw the HD and I tried to format it, again the computer froze.

I can only assume that a SCSI II drive will not work on a IIGS
with a HS SCSI card. At least, you cannot use ADU to low-level
format one and then attempt to partition it.

I don't know if the HD was a 1/3, or 1/2 height drive. I've
been told that 1/3 height drives won't work with the IIGS,
only full or 1/2 height ones will.
Is that correct????

If anyone has had other experiences or successes, I'd like to
hear from them.

email would be preffered if you've got time. Thanks peoples.



Hoping to hear from a few people.

Regards,
Davo esq.

Viva la IIGS, The power ][ be the best!!
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