Here's the URL for the Drive Setup hack. It's easy and works well.
<http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/drvsetup.html>
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Andrew
At 5:08 PM -0400 8/26/01, Scott Holder wrote:
>What you'll probably need to do is find an older copy of Drive Setup and/or
>grab Resedit and patch it to recognize third party drives.
>
>Failing that, you could get a third-party program like HD Toolkit or the
>like.
>
>I'm away from the web at the moment, but if you have trouble finding the
>Drive Setup hacks, let me know and I'll look for them later.
>
>Scott Holder
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Davy Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:56 PM
>Subject: Unsupported drive?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I recently bought a IBM 4.5gb 50pin SCSI HDD model "DCHS",
>> which is now fitted internally in a 7600. It spins up OK.
>>
>> The only way I could get it to appear on the desktop is to run
>> an Avid utility called "AVIDdrive". This means it appears as an
>> Avid media drive.
>>
>> If I run "Disc first aid" it says the disc seems OK.
>> When I try to run "Drive set up" it can see the drive on the SCSI
>> chain, but won't initialise it because "Cannot modify a disk in an
>> unsupported drive".
>>
>> I tried to install MAC OS 9 on the drive, and I get told it won't do it
>> because the disc drivers are wrong.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me can this drive be changed to become a normal
>> Mac drive? All ideas welcome.
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