As promised, I went into my workshop today and set up a Mac Plus for initializing a 1 gig hard disk.
I started with a Quantum 40MB disk for test-purposes. Easy. Used the Apple HD/SC Setup. Then I moved on to an Apple Rommed Quantum 500MB drive. The one from my Performa 6118. No Term Power jumper. But I had a terminator on the external hard disk case. Drive kept making the Plus reboot. With the terminator on or off the Bus. I moved on to a Seagate 1 GIG. Term Power jumpers set. Interestingly, ALL 7 SCSI formatting programs I used were unable to format the drive with a 3:1 interleave. The Mac Plus hasn't enough memory for it to happen. I errored-out all over the map: Apple HD/SC Micronet SCSI Utility Micronet v7.2 CMS Utilities FWB HD Tool Kit 1.0 FWB Toolkit 1.7.5 Alliance Power Tools The one I used secondly, the Micronet SCSI Formatter v7.2 would quit with an error message, and when I rebooted, the Plus's Toolbox Routine kicked in and told me the hard disk needed initializing. I let it. But it didn't offer me a choice of interleaves. It picked 1:1, I guess, because after initializing it mounted to the desktop with the icon I chose in the formatting process, before the halt-on-error. I copied System 6.0.8. System Folder to the hard disk and rebooted. Got Mark's question-over-floppy icon. Moving to FWB HDTK, it errored out telling me it needed 12k or RAM to initialize and interleave the 1 GIG HD to 3:1. The Plus has 4k. I took out my IIcx. Trying to format/interleave the 1 gig hard disk to 3:1, I was given an error message that the drive would not allow that interleave. So......it would seem that, unless there's a 1 gig drive out there that allows 3:1, the Plus won't work with 1 gig drives. Mark? You're not crazy. This may NOT be doable...... Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
