>Also, one drive spins up on boot, the other drive beeps and then does >nothing. I have never in 7 years working with SCSI drives ever heard >a hard drive beep. I have scoured Google and the newsgroups, no info >on beeping hard drives. What gives? > >I am going to pop the SCSI card in my PC and try to get the drives >working on it. If I can't find a solution soon, I guess I'm going to >have to try to dump these hard drives on someone who has a proper >80-pin backplate and try to find a pair of affordable native 68-pin >drives.
I've never heard of a beeping hard drive ever before, either. I would suggest that there's probably either something wrong with your SCSI card or your SCA adaptors. Make sure you have all your jumpers set right, and get a 68-50 pin adaptor and make sure the drives show up on your internal SCSI bus. Chances are, with them being HP OEM drives, the manufacturer string they return is "HP", which most mac formatting tools will refuse to format. I had to download a copy of the MicroNet Utility from Gamba's homepage in order to format an old Compaq OEM Barracuda I just picked up the other day, because it's manufacturer string is "COMPAQ" instead of "SEAGATE" and nothing else would touch it. One other thing you might try would be to download a copy of BootX and a linux kernel (2.4.anything) and boot the linux kernel on your machine. It'll just complain that there's no linux installed, of course, but you'll be able to watch the boot messages and see if the linux kernel can see your drives even though the MacOS can't. If it can, you'll also see who the "manufacturer" of your drives is, which will tell you a lot about what hoops you'll have to jump thru to get them formatted. Best of luck, Tyler -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
