Hi all! I have a Seagate 50-pin SCSI-2 4.3gig hard drive in my 7300/180. It is at the end of the SCSI cable with the middle plug occupied by the stock 2gig Quantam hd with Apple ROM's. The Seagate was not made specifically for an Apple, thus has no ROMS. I have tried several drivers to get this thing running. The only one that works is the FWB hard disk tool-kit. I got it going, but the drive is recognized as device 4 on the chain, while the other is 2! It worked fine for a while as the startup disk on OS 8.6, but now something weird has happened. When I put the computer to sleep, it wakes up fine and when I reboot, it works flawlessly. But when I shut the computer down, then boot up, it can't find the startup drive. I tried disk rescue and everything else, but it calls the drive "unsupported". Worse yet, I now can't get the driver re-installed this time around and am faced with re-initializing the disk to get the driver back on. The problem is the next time I shut down the computer, the same thing will happen again. The original Apple 2gig drive has never had a problem no matter where I put it on the chain and works perfect. I also played with the jumper settings on the Seagate, setting it in several different positions, and SCSI 4 was the best I could get, when it worked. What gives? Why does it lose the driver? And why is it acting so flaky?
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If the CD-ROM is ID 3 it is probably terminated there. move the termination to the end of the SCSI chain.
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