Re: upgrading SCSI drive on Apple II cx ?

[David Matthew Wood <dmwood@erols.com>]

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.