on 1/8/04 10:48 AM, Nicole at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > A friend gave me an external Hard Drive for my Plus (GCC Ultradrive > 45) with cables, and he said it worked. > > My Plus, however, does not deign to acknowledge its presence. I've > tried changing the HD's Scuzzy #, checked the connections, and > attempted to reformat the HD off the Plus (but since it does not > recognize that the device is plugged in this did not work). The HD > lights up and spins, but my Plus does not know that it is there. > > Any suggestions? I would think that there was a problem with the > cable, but my friend assured me that it was working (and he has no > reason to lie). > > I am puzzled. > > Thanks, > > Nicole
The number one problem in using an external drive with a Plus is that the Plus can't "see" any drive not formatted to a 3:1 interleave. To make it mount onto the desktop, use a SCSI Probe or MT. Everything which will mount can be mounted with one of these two utilities. Then go on to use a non-Apple Drive Formatter like Lido 7.56, APS Utilities, Micronet SCSI Utility. Most are old enough to be public domain. I have good results with either of these three, but little with the Apple version of HD/SC for System 6. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
