[bojangles]

I�ve just come into two old 50-pin SCSI drives, formerly used in Wintel boxes. They�re big enough that I�d love to put them in my two old LC's (an LC II and an LC 575). Just one problem: despite the fact that they fit perfectly, the Macs just can�t seem to figure out that the drives are present. I�ve tried running Drive Setup, NUM, and even Disk Drive TuneUp (I didn�t figure that would work), but to no avail.

So.... Any suggestions?

[itomato]

ID and termination.

Heres what you gota do. Tehy are partioned to work in those wintel boxes and macs can't see the partion table if its set for a wintel box.
Firt you have to put then back into the wintel boxs and use a bootable
DOS or WIN9x boot floppy. Boot the machine with the floppy and when booting is finished run fdisk fron the command line. Once your in fdisk choose the # 4 option(display partion info). This is just to check and see that they are in fact formated to fat16 or fat32.
After you confirm that they are in the fat format you get to erase the of the wintel muck from yor drives. Hit the esc key and go back to the main menu. Select option # 3. Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive.
If the drive has just a single patition select #1 and this will delete the DOS partition. If there are more partions the process is a little more lenghthy then there is space for. The main thing is , once you have deleted the partion hit the ESC key a few times to exit out of Fdisk and then reboot the PC once the system restarts shut it down and remove your drive. Put it in your Mac and boot with either a Disktools floppy or a CD and it should ask to initalize the drive. You should know the rest. Just repeat this with all the drives you want to convert.
If you have more questions email me at impulseman36@msn.com
Good Luck

[bojangles]

Sounds great, except that I�m not sure where I would find a Wintel box to use. (I�m sure I could, with a little effort, but....)

Any chance I could get Mac OS X to see the drive and format it from the Terminal?

[Woggle]

Hmmm, I'd check what hard drive utilities are out there, as I remember something back in the old days like this, we're talking the time of the Hackintosh articles in Computer Shopper, some 10+ years ago, back when 40M was big, and Apple's software only recognised Apple's drives, not third party. One thought might be to try Disk Warrior, its served as a great recovery tool, maybe it can do something with these drives(assuming that they're terminated right).

[bojangles]

Thanks for the tip. Anyway, I took the drives over to my brother-in-law's and hooked them up to his NT box. He booted them off his SCSI card and low-level formatted each of them. I now have one hooked up to my beige G3, and just had the other one hooked up. SCSI Probe sees them, Disk Setup sees them; but both say they�re unsupported and therefore unmountable, unformattable.

Any more thoughts? (We�re so close!!!)

[techX]

In the past disk setup only worked on Apple drives. Don't know if that is still true or not. There was a patched version that could overcome this. Other disk formatting software should be able to do it...

Bill

Originally posted by bojangles:
<STRONG>Thanks for the tip. Anyway, I took the drives over to my brother-in-law's and hooked them up to his NT box. He booted them off his SCSI card and low-level formatted each of them. I now have one hooked up to my beige G3, and just had the other one hooked up. SCSI Probe sees them, Disk Setup sees them; but both say they�re unsupported and therefore unmountable, unformattable.

Any more thoughts? (We�re so close!!!) </STRONG>

[bojangles]

I did it!!!

As mentioned, I disconnected the internal zip drive from my beige G3 and hooked up the hard drives, one at a time. After Disk Setup and SCSI Probe both failed, I decided to install an old program I had lying around ��Disk Drive TuneUp� 1.0 � and lo and behold, it worked!

Thanks again for all your help, everyone! As for me, I�m going back to bed.