>Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:25:38 -0800 (PST) >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The partitioning crashed, leaving the disk unusable. I >have tried Norton Disk Doctor, the patched version of >HD SC, and a few other random utilities. The only >thing I haven't tried is FWB HD Toolkit, which I can't >locate online or around here. The utility program "Mt >Anything" finds the drive, but says it is "Not Ready" >and won't allow me to mount or format it. I have run into a similar problem when HDTK froze during formatting. The drive was left in working order but none of the Mac formatting utilities I tried would touch it. They reported it as not ready. I finally took it to work, hooked it up to a PC equipped with an Adaptec SCSI card, and hit Cntrl-A at the appropriate time during boot up to enter the Adaptec SCSI Utilities which are in the firmware of the SCSI card. The formatting utility built into the Adaptec card found the drive and set it up fine. Then I took it home and formatted it on my Mac where it was once again Ready. Beyond the obvious logistical problem of getting access to a PC with an Adaptec SCSI card (do other manufacturers have the firmware utilities?) there's the additional problem that this was a long time ago, so I don't know if the newer cards have the firmware utilities, nor if the boot process of modern PCs lend themselves to entering the utilities. Also, there's a setting to turn the little Adaptec announcement of "Hit cntrl-A for Adaptec Setup" off, so it might not appear on some PCs. The cards that I know had those utilities built in were the 1540C(F), the VESA LB cards 2830, 2840?, and the earlier PCI cards such as the 2940, 2940U, 2940UW and 3940U or 3940UW. There may be other PC cards and utilities that will do the trick. For that matter there may be a Mac utility that will do it, but these are what worked for me. Jeff Walther -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
