Re: [PCI] Stuffit for System 7 and SCSI drive for 7200

[Mike T.]

Actually, that's not true. I have an IBM 4 gig 50-pin SCSI drive I 
popped into my 7300 and my 9.1 disk recognized it right away and 
formatted/installed to it. The jumpers have to be set correctly, 
however. My drive has (count 'em) three jumpers on it, each doing a 
different function. But the drive works flawlessly.  Of course, 
Apple-branded SCSI drives will always be best in this area (short of 
going IDE), but there are alternatives.

..........................................Mike



Russ Gibson wrote:

Any (well, practically any) SCSI drive is compatible with your Mac. The

problem is Apple's utility will only format drives they ship - i.e. from
Apple.  So, if you purchase a 3rd party utility that contains a driver as
part of the software, the drive will work fine.  I use FWB Hard Disk
Toolkit, and so far its been working fine.  They have a lite version that
will work for something like $40 if I recall (the full version is $90).
Other people use other utilities.
If you want to stick to Apple's utility, then you'll have to purchase a
drive that originally came from them.
--> Russ

 

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