CLASSICCMP digest 363 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Mar 1998

From: John Rollins &lt;rexstout(a)ptld.uswest.net&gt;
Subject: Mac II problem

...
 Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs
mailing list, I'm too lazy to
type it all again ;-) 
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...
 Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for
$15(including a datatronics
keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
to think was a second video card... 
Good price.  Though I myself would never have THAT much desk space available...

[snip]!
...
  Finally the normal
System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped. 
Most likely the hard drive is a non-Apple drive (i.e. a Quantum or whatever
without the special Apple ROM).  Apple rigged it's drive setups to only
format identifiable Apple HDs.  If this is the case there are two options:

1. Locate a 3rd party drive utility like FWB HD Toolkit which works with most
SCSI drives, there are a couple on the net but no gaurantees...

2. Check web for the sites that have the patches to the HD Setup progs.
to format a non-apple drive anyway.  (they are out there, and some are harder
than others to do.)  I went this route on my external drive, it works great.

Here is the site I had found:
   http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html

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