Hi all
I've got this stack of SCSI hard drives on my PTP250, which now has a G3, and they seem to be formatted with something called 'FWB Async 2:ID 8 3 0:2' as a RAID array, one of the four SCSI drives shows in disk tools as not initialized, but if you try it warns that all data will be lost on the other three drives in the array, two 9 gig and two 4 gig total drives in this array. I know little about RAID arrays and less about those in a Mac. All I know is that once when I zapped the PRAM I lost the ability of these drives to be mounted automatically at boot time so I have to manually do it from disk tools every time the box is rebooted.
Also, this setup seems particularly likely to be blown to bits by any sort of printer software whatsoever. The Epson stuff I tried really screwed up the machine, the HP 932C software also seems to have whacked one of the async partitions but at least the printer sorta works :-/
I assume I need some sort of utility to make the PRAM know how to mount these drives, and to fix/maintain them. What would that be? Every time I think about buying a new computer there always seems to come an extra thousand dollars worth of unplanned expense of some kind, so its just me and this old thing for the forseeable future..
Bolton
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