Re: Repost of Seagate SCSI II HD not working on IIGS

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>This is a repost of a Question thrown onto the Net. I haven't
>had any replies yet, so please any help is much appreciated ;-).

I didn't speak because I have the RamFAST.

>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.

If it appeared on the desktop before, obviously it works.  :)

>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.

Was the formatting successful?  Seems so, so you created one 245mb 
partition?

>The computer froze. No partitioning nor formatting occured.

Eh?  You should format it first, after that is done, then you partition it.

>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.

If it freezed when the GS tries to write it, it's probably SCSI termination
problem and/or cabling.

>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.

SCSI-2 is a superset of SCSI-1, in theory ( because I haven't tried it
persionally ) it should work just fine.

>I the Seagate 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. (Quantum 1/3 height drives were
>the ones I was told didn't work with the IIGS).
>Is that correct????

The height doesn't not matter.  :)  Who told you that?

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com