I've got an old 7200/90 which is acting as my CD burning station. Work was throwing out an old Compaq 4.3GB SCSI drive, which I've tried to put into the 7200. No go - the 7200 won't recognise it.
I reformatted the drive using HDST (Apple Drive Setup wouldn't initialise it) on the SCSI chain on my 7500/G4 and put 8.6 on it. It still isn't recognised by the 7200, even when it is the only drive there.
Any advice? I remember somewhere reading that the 7200 had some SCSI 'features' but can anyone tell me what they are? And how I get the drive to work?
This isn't a 7200 'feature' but more likely one of those Compaq raid things...I had what sounds like the same drive (it's a Compaq-rommed Seagate drive; I hacked Drive Set Up to see it and format it) but it would NEVER mount properly on startup.
I could go into SCSI Probe, see it, and mount it, after which it worked just fine, but if I shut down and restarted, the drive stubbornly refused to mount. If I just restarted, it was ok, but there could be no power interupption.
I played with the various startup jumper settings from Seagate's instruction manual for that model, but I suspect that Compaq over-rides them in it's ROM, since it sure acts like it's waiting for a 'wakey wakey!' signal on the bus that the Mac isn't sending.
I finally gave up in frustration.
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