First off I have a B&W G3/400 (rev. 1) with 1 Gig of RAM and the Apple supplied SCSI option with a 9 Gig IBM SCSI drive. I also have a 100 Gig Western Digital drive on the internal ATA bus.
I installed a new Western Digital 9 gig SCSI drive recently. Formatted with OS X Drive Utility (since Drive Set-Up doesn't support the drive) and was happily on my way. I use OS 9 95% of the time. I decided to boot in to OS X and work for a while and had no problem reading and writing to all the disks. When I tried to boot back into OS 9, all of a sudden the computer would not recognize either of the SCSI drives. After much consternation and since I had a fresh back-up I decided to simply reformat the SCSI drives. No luck. OS 9 Drive Set-up simply will not format the drives nor will OS X Drive Utility. Drive Set-Up gives me a failure message and Drive Utilty seems like it finishes the job but the drive is never recognized or mounted.
I *have* been able to format and test both drives using FWB HD Toolkit 3 (which of course is not supported by OS 9 or X) so I know the drives work and can be recognized by the computer and have the correct SCSI IDs (0 and 1). I have also tested the drives with Norton Utilities and TechTool. No problems reported.
What gives? Why did Apple supplied formatting utilties, which worked before, failed to format the drives? Especially the IBM drive which came with the computer? I thought about getting a third party utilty like Intech HardDisk SpeedTools or upgrading to FWB HardDisk ToolKit 4.5.2 but don't really want to spend the money when Apple's utilities should work. I also understand that FWB isn't supported by OS 9.2.2 (which is what I use).
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? THANK YOU!!
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