Re: SCSI Hard Drive Problem

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Jon Lipp wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am having problems with an 80 MB SCSI Hard Drive connected to an Apple II
> Hi Speed SCSI card on a ROM III GS.  I am using the Apple II SCSI utilities
> to format the 80 MB Hard Drive.  The problem I have is that when I format
> the Hard Drive, it comes up saying that I have 8 Hard Drives (4 pairs of
> two 32MB partitions, each named HD.PARTITION.1 and HD.PARTITION.2).  When I
> boot into GS/OS System 6.0.1, I get an error message 6 times, saying that
> there is already a partition named HD.PARTITION.1 and HD.PARTITION.2 and
> that I need to rename or eject it.  Is there any way I can dump the 8
> partitions and get them down to just 2?  I haven't had any luck trying to
> reformat the drive using the Apple II SCSI utilities.  Can I reformat it
> using a Mac or anything?

Don't know if this is relevant but I had that happen with a Rev C card I
picked up
that was set to a lower ID than 7(don't recall the exact #). When I reset it's
ID to
7 it functioned normally as did the HD after a reformat.
A Mac can format and partition the HD, though you'll want to initialize the
partitions
in ProDOS format after. 80mb divides into more than two 32mb partitions so
you'd
likely want to use 3 partitions. If really you want to waste 20% of the HD you
can
initialize a partition larger than 32mb as ProDOS and your computer wouldn't
see
the wasted space.

    Wayne