I apologize in advance for this question as it may be off-topic. A friend of mine acquired a PC with a SCSI HD. He was planning on refurbishing it but is not crazy about working on SCSI equipment. I don't know the particulars on the size of the HD. I was wondering whether it would be worthwhile to acquire it as a possible back-up drive for my 7500/100. What would be the formatting or hardware issues? I sincerely hope that this is not too off topic.
I don't see anything off topic about it...
If it is a 50 pin SCSI drive, good chances are it is a matter of putting it in the bottom bay of the 7500, rebooting, the system should recognize it (unless it is a compaq drive) and want to initialize it. Click yes and let the computer do it's thing and in about 30 sec or less it should be formatted for a Mac.
My suggestion would be, if the system recognizes it, click no to initialize it, then open Drive Setup, under Functions Menu>Initialization Options choose Low Level Format and then initialize the drive. This will take awhile, but it will make sure that the drive is clean and formatted.
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