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.
Which model, exactly, is it? That should be reported by SCSI probe.
Some IBM models are supported, some aren't. Most SCSI drives can be formatted by Drive Setup with a simple resedit hack.
HD SC Setup 7.5.3 (not Drive Setup that shipped with newer computers) can be hacked to support nearly anything.
<http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/25.html>
It could be as simple as adding that drive to Drive Setup's list of recognized drives:
<http://www.cogco.co.uk/drivesetup.html> <http://www.macfaq.de/macfaqdaten/minifaqs/dspg.html>
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