My first and second drives worked on the 8500 without problems. Both can be booted from the 8500. Worked fine for the past six months.
The third one delivered today and it works (mounts on and boots from ) a 7300 with no problems.
BUT (drum roll)
This drive fails to work with the Beige G3 (aka Power Mac G3, the one that look like a 7300) with its internal SCSI port on motherboard, meaning it doesn't mount during powerup and it fails to be recognized with Apple's disk utilities.
Still further, for the Beige G3 when I put in a PowerDomain card (2930, and then a 3940) same things, can't mount, can't initialize. It does spin up and lights up because I see the light and I can hear the spin.
I played with the jumpers on the bottom of the drive (with terminating power, etc) still no luck. My SCSI cable has a terminator at the last connector, and this is necessary since there is NO WAY you can terminate this hard drive by itself.
This hard drive was attached to a 80 pin SCA to 50 pin narrow SCSI adaptor.
So,
Any SCSI gurus out there have ideas as to why it works with certain PowerMacs and not others ?
Thanks
Phil Wong
At 10:30 AM 11/12/03 +1100, you wrote:
There have been a lot of of big G Seagate HDs on eBay recently, eg. "SEAGATE CHEETAH 18.2GB 10,000RPM NEVER USED" went for $71 Aust yesterday, that's $51 US. Anyone had any luck with this particular type in a 7300 or 7600. I understand the faster access speed is impressive to have.
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