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alari · Dec 23, 2005, 05:09 AM

I have a problem with a Powermac 8600, i put in a 2 GiB SCSI drive (it's an IBM model form some Compaq i guess) and when i boot up fomr OS8.6 or OS9 CD, the drive setup reports the drive as not supported, what's up with that ? The CDROM is set to ID1 and the HD is set to ID0, i set tthe HD jumper to terminate, but nothing changed, i dont have a mac with scsi at home right now so i cant initialise the HD in another machine.
Any suggestions ?

BLAZE_MkIV · Dec 23, 2005, 10:49 AM

I know older versions of drive setup would only format scsi drives with an apple rom. I'm not sure that the later versions still check this. You could try pdisk there are mac versions floating around.

reader50 · Dec 23, 2005, 11:41 AM

Avoid ID0, that is usually the host controller.

tooki · Dec 23, 2005, 11:42 AM

On Macs, SCSI ID 0 was the default boot disk, actually. The controller is 7.

tooki

alari · Dec 28, 2005, 06:16 PM

I tried booting the Debian Woody floppy, but it fails with an error from swim3 (the scsi controller i guess)
I'll try NetBSD tomorrow, if i have some time.

alari · Jan 25, 2006, 05:23 PM

I installed a 500MB HD with an Apple ROM in the machine and installed OS9 on it, i then used the patched Apple HD SC Setup 7.5.3 to initalize the 2GB IBM Drive, problem solved :-)