Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:57:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Billings)
I've just got hold of a 1GB SCSI Compaq Harddrive and thought I would see if I can get it to work, but I can't get MacEnvy or Lido to recognise it on the SCSI bus, is there anything I can try?
Some of those Compaq drives just won't work on other machines even though they may have a model number from someone like Seagate, which usually indicates a usable drive. There is something odd about some of the Compaq badged drives, especially from the era when they were sold in Proliant or Prolinea (mid- 90s?) servers. Someone once speculated that they used an odd sector or block size or some such.
I could never get some of the ones I tried to work on a Mac. One thing I never tried was putting the drive on a PC with an Adapter SCSI card that has built-in drive utilities (1540CF, 2940/U/UW, etc., NOT 2905, 2910, 2906) press cntrl-A at boot to enter the SCSI card utilities and use the utility to low-level format the drive. This might make it usable--or make it unusable on any machine. I have resurrected some Mac drives this way, when my formatting software on the Mac quit or froze in the middle of a format and left the drive unusable and unrecognizable to any Mac software.
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