According to The Dead Mac Scrolls, this is seems a problem with the
drive's driver. Definitely, as Ian said, the problem is with the drive's
configuration itself, and not a hardware/termination problem. The
procedure to solve it is this:
* Put the drive in an external enclosure, connected to the SCSI port.
* Power on the SE but *not* the external drive. Use a system disk to
boot the SE.
* As soon as you arrive to the Finder, power on the external drive.
* Then launch a SCSI utility (the patched HD-SC Utility will do the
trick) and use it to erase all the drive's contents, install a
fresh driver and create and format a partition.
That should make the drive usuable again. If you are able to boot from
it while in the external enclosure, it will work also inside the SE. You
can find the patched HD-SC in my FTP (see the link bellow), under the
folder /Macintosh/Software/Utilities/, file name
"hd_sc_setup_735-patched.sea.bin".
You may say that you have done the same in the 7300. But many times,
preparing the drive in the computer that is going to use it works, while
doing the very same procedure in a different computer doesn't work -
maybe because a PowerPC tries to write a PPC-only driver into the drive?
About size limits: Systems prior to 7.5.1 had a limit of 2 Gb per
partition, Systems from 7.5.3 to 8.0 had a limit of 4 Gb, and System 8.1
introduced HFS+ and raised the limit to a quantity that I cannot
remember, but that even nowadays is far from being reached. As for power
supply limits, many people has put disks of up to 8 Gb in compact Macs,
so it should not be a problem with your 2 Gb drive.
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/>
Lavode escribió:
Hi List!
I have a straight SE (not an SE/30), and it has an 80 mb HD that I
want to put a 2 GB drive into. I can't get the SE to recognize the
drive. The drive was in a 7300 running OS 9.x in it's previous life,
so I put the new drive into an old PowerComputing tower running 8.6,
formatted the HD in Standard (not extended), and then ran the 7.5.3
installer, installing a copy of 7.5.3 on the 2 GB drive that would
work on any computer.
I put the new drive in place of the 80 MB, and turn it on, and it
gives me the sick mac face followed by
0000000F
00000002
Any ideas? THe HD is a quantum Fireball ST 3.5 series.
TIA,
Lavode
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