Initializing a new hard drive

[Art Sable]

I recently acquired a nice IBM 18 MB 7200 rpm SCSI-2 hard drive, for 
using as an auxiliary external drive on my 7300>G3 running OS 8.6. I 
put the drive into an enclosure with a power supply, and connected 
it, properly terminated, to a a virgin SCSI-2 controller in a PCI 
slot in the computer.  I intended to wipe all data from the drive 
with Norton, then initialize and format it and install a new driver 
with Apple's Drive Setup, which came with OS 8.6.  I have done this 
before, and it worked.

But this time I couldn't do it.  After starting up, the new drive 
does not even show up on the desktop.  But it is recognized properly 
by the SCSI Probe control panel.  Apple System Profiler recognizes it 
but issues a warning saying "No media mounted in this drive" or 
something like that, and shows the space in the drive as zero. 
Obviously I cannot work on this new drive if the computer doesn't 
acknowledge its existence.

I have another SCSI-2 drive on this same computer, connected as above 
to another SCSI-2 PCI controller, and it works fine.  I think that 
the first drive may have already been initialized with a non-Apple 
utility and thus recognized by the computer; I wiped off the original 
initialization along with everything else and then was able to 
re-initialize it with Drive Setup.

I will appreciate any constructive suggestions.  How do you go about 
building a raft when you are out in the open ocean?

--Art Sable



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