[MikeM32]

We've got a Mac at work which has an external Seagate "Hammer" SCSI drive connected to it. This drive used to be connected to our old server for storage. We got a new server, so I decided to hook-up this drive to our oldest and slowest 9500/132 Workstation which only has a 1 GB internal drive (yep no kidding).

The problem is that this external drive was formatted with Hard Disk Toolkit version 2.5 or 3 (or some older version we've had at work for a while). I've set up this mac to run applications off the external drive and the internal 1 GB is the system only. The Mac still seems sluggish, which I suspect is also just due to the slow processor, however it actually seems worse than it was prior to doing a full re-format and re-install. We've even added RAM to this system, which hasn't made a huge difference.

I upped the system to OS 9.0.4. I tried upping 9.0.4 to 9.1 Friday afternoon, and it just hung on the install where the estimated time remaining was actually getting longer and longer, so I left it to install over this entire weekend, and hope it works.

I suspect the external drive is causing some problem(s) because when I re-formatted a while ago the System disk said it could not install the drivers necessary to the external drive because it was formatted by a 3rd party utility (Hard Disk Toolkit obviously). Subsequent upgrades also give me the same message about the external drive.

I'd like to be able to wipe this formatting off the external drive so that The Mac OS's can install their own drivers to this drive. Our Hard Disk toolkit version isn't in use anymore, and I see no need to continue using it. So I'd like to eliminate this 3rd party formatting off this drive so it can be used without HDT. I don't know if this will improve performance or not, but I'd still like to keep this drive in a "useful" state should we even decide to put it on other systems in the future.

Is there any way to eliminate HDT's driver from this drive?

Thanks for any advice

Mike

[Cipher13]

I suggest OS 8.6 for that machine.
I think if you were to format it simply with Drive Setup, using the "update drivers" option, it would work fine... have you tried that?

Cipher13

[WillyB]

Maybe you are getting that dialog box because the drive setup application doesn't support a external Seagate "Hammer" SCSI drive. As to
whether or not the HDT drivers can be wiped, I'm not sure. Why not try using this drive as the Internal drive? Usually the internal drives
respond faster than External drives, don't they? If it were up to me, I'd put a copy of OS 9.x on this drive, and keep the 1GB "System" drive
as an emergency startup device... <-- with some diagnostic apps on it to do maintenance on the internal drive every now and then.