Re: Help with Apple HiSpeed SCSI

[rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der)]

Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu> wrote:
>I recently installed an Apple HiSpeed SCSI card on a friend's
>Rom01.
>
>At bootup to the finder, after showing partitions 1 through 4,
>there is then a dialog box showing that there is already a
>partition named "HD1" and that this [spurious] partition
>must be renamed "HD12." If I EJECT all 24 spurious partitions,
>then everything functions normally from that point on.
>
>I tried running Apple SCSI Utilities to verify partitions.
>It shows 8 partitions, named HD1, HD2, HD3, HD4, HD1, HD2, HD3, HD4.
>When I try to verify any of the partitions, I get the message
>"bad boot block" and the program locks up.  I have tried this
>with the original version [1986?] of the SCSI Utilities, and the
>last one [1993?], which specifically mentions the HiSpeed SCSI card.
>
>Is there anything I can do short of repartitioning the entire
>drive on the Apple SCSI card and then reinstalling all the programs?
 
 
First check if the ID is 7 or 0 as others have suggested. Another
possibility is that your SCSI chain is not properly terminated
(or the drive's termination has gone bad). This can result in the
"ghost" partition problems you mentioned. Try attaching an external
terminator to the drive (if it is at the end of the chain). This
solved a ghost partition problem some time ago.


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