Those are the correct responses from the Apple utilities. You can only
update the driver with another version of Silverlining -- or replace it
with something else. You might want to check the LaCie support pages to
verify that the Silverlining version you have works with OS 8.5/8.6, but
I don't recall such a problem.
If the driver is loading, btw, you will see a Silverlining logo in the
lower right corner of the screen and a series of SCSI ID 'lights' to
show which drive it's being loaded for. As I recall, this happens
*before* you see the happy Mac.
Flicker wrote:
>
> I gathered the below quote from a tech bulletin on Silverlining. No one is
> responding except Mr. Clark and one off-list helper, but I'm going to keep
> this thread up in hopes someone has the time and can put aside competitive
> ego for a moment to hazard appearing less than "all that" for the purposes
> of something other than self aggrandizement...... ha. ha. The purpose to
> this thread is to figure why the 8500/132 isn't mounting any drive. I
> received this from an off-lease reseller and it came from the IEEE at
> Rutgers (electrical engineer's group). I figure there's no posts because of
> the holiday or because no one has a clue. I certainly don't. (original post
> in full quoted below) Here's what I found:
>
> "Any hard disk drive attached to the SCSI bus must be partitioned and
> formatted and contain its own driver program. When the Macintosh starts up
> it issues a SCSI reset command and polls the SCSI bus for the devices to
> respond. For a responding hard disk the Macintosh loads its driver
> program(s) into system memory. All subsequent communication between the hard
> drive(s) and the Macintosh is done through that driver."
>
> So I formatted and partitioned the hard drive with Silverlining. A Quantum
> Fireball 1.2 GB drive which the seller says had the MacOS 8.5 driver
> installed. However, when I went to do a clean install of 8.5, it wouldn't
> update the driver, saying it wasn't an Apple driver. Which is why I
> reformatted to begin with using Silverlining. Drive Setup also wouldn't
> initialize the drive, again, so I used Silverlining. Does this help?
>
> This makes me wonder whether
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jrclark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
>
> >
> > My knowledge is quite limited but i would try everything
> > i could think of.
> > Boot with Command-Option-shift-P-R
> > Zap Pram,press and hold CUDA swich about 20 sec.
> > Check cables unplug and reseat connectors.
> > See if can hear HD spin.
> > Unplug cdrom.
> > unplug floppy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 4:59 PM
> Subject: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
>
> > Horns of a dilemma, Part I.
> >
> > Wanted a fresh 8500/132, so I formatted the internal
> > 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball hard drive with Silverlining
> > 5.x.x (the Apple Setup didn't want to do the
> > intialization.....). Everything went fine so I
> > partitioned the drive into two equal parts Apple I and
> > Apple II. MacOS 8.5-->8.6 onto I and 7.6-7.6.1 onto
> > II. Still fine. Shutdown to restart later. When I did,
> > the 8500/132 froze up immediately and I have no access
> > via the CD-ROM, external SCSI or floppy drive. It just
> > won't start-up properly even though it sounds the
> > resonant chord, displays a gray screen and arrow. It
> > doesn't git to the Happy Mac.
> >
> > What happened? Does this have anything to do with the
> > kind of internal SCSI bus the 8500/132 has? Was
> > Silverlining incompatible and of course, WHAT IN
> > MINERVA AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW!?
> >
> > I thought I thunk I saw this thing had been formatted
> > by an FWB utility and I saw "hammerhead" somewhere in
> > the TechTool report during the check-out run of that
> > utility. Everything seemed fine. May have broke
> > something that didn't need fixed. Just wanted it
> > fresh.......would appreciate mega-feedback so I can
> > resolve this soon.
>
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