on 12/11/00 11:15 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "Eric L. Strobel" wrote:
>>
>> on 12/11/00 11:07 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> In the process of preparing my stuff for sale, I decided to format the
>>> Fujitsu (Apple OEM) 4.3 GB drive in my Duo 2300c, because I wanted to
>>> sell it separately. I selected the zero writing options in the
>>> initialization options in Drive Setup, and proceeded with the
>>> format/initialization.
>>>
>>> After making some progress, I felt that the progress bar was kinda
>>> stucked. Drive Setup was still responding, the ball cursor was still
>>> spinning, but it looks like the progress was a lot slower. It was about
>>> half done with the drive. So, I decided to go to bed and let it run all
>>> night.
>>>
>>> This morning, upon checking up the Duo, I had a message in the message
>>> portion of the Drive Setup window saying that initialization failed, and
>>> the Duo was locked up.
>>>
>>> I've tried to restart, but the drive wouldn't show up in the Finder.
>>> I've went to Drive Setup again, but the drive wouldn't appear in the
>>> drives list.
>>>
>>> The odd thing I did notice is when I reboot, or restart the Duo. The
>>> drive starts spinning, but I can hear it spinning very slowly. At least,
>>> slower than what it used to be. After a little while, I can hear the
>>> difference.
>>>
>>> So, now, I'm kinda stucked with this drive. Anyone knows what I could
>>> try? I'm forced to boot off the Mac OS 9 system CD for now.
>>>
>>> Any suggestion?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> -Laurent.
>>
>> Since the drive no doubt has no System Folder (or anything else, for that
>> matter) on it, this is exactly the behavior that should be expected. Just
>> format with the Drive Setup off the OS9 CD. An alternative would be if you
>> have the SCSI cable to permit the Duo to become an external drive. Then you
>> can just hook it up to a desktop machine and do what you will.
>>
>> - Eric.
>>
>
> Can't do! The drive doesn't show up in Drive Setup! I don't have the
> cable to turn the Duo into an external drive, I don't think I have it,
> but not sure, how to recognize it?
>
> -Laurent.
Anyone care to answer about the cable question? I just know such cables
exist.
Now, if the drive doesn't appear in Drive Setup, that is a problem, since it
obviously did at one point. Did you originally format the drive with Drive
Setup?? (Personally, I never use Drive Setup -- I'd rather use a real,
full-featured package like HDT or Silverlining.) Also, it might just be
possible that Norton may be able to load it's emergency disk driver and get
the drive recognized. Not sure how that'll help you, since Drive Setup
would presumably just rescan for available drives and probably would unload
the emergency driver.
- Eric.
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