On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 02:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To all you Supermac-kers:
I just thought I'd give you an update on my J-700 escapade. I was able
to produce a boot disk for Disk Tools (OS 7.5.3) and lo and behold, the
J-700 booted (wow!). However, the disk can't see the HD that came with the
computer. I strongly suspect that this drive is DOA. The guy that sold
this to me on eBay said I would need to "load an OS on the computer." I
guess that's because the hard drive is dead. Anyway, I tried this with the
Seagate Barracuda ST118273LC rebuilt hard drive that I picked up, the
computer saw it, but said it was "unsupported." I suspect that this is
because, if I understand this correctly, this hard drive has no internal
termination, but rather, relies on termination from the
controller/motherboard. I'm hoping that I can still use this as a slave
hard drive (I assume that I need to jumper it to an ID setting other than 0.
. .). But, at least I know the computer operates. I've ordered a SCSI HD
on eBay that's been formatted with Apple Hard Drive Set-up and checked with
FWB Hard Drive Toolkit (which I have a copy of). Slowly, but surely, we're
getting there! I'll let you know what happens. Again, thanks mucho to all
of you that have given me input!
Scott Birdwell DeFalco's Home Wine & Beer Supplies
First the Seagate drive, is it Apple's Drive SetUp that tells you that the drive is unsupported?
Apples drive setup does not support all brands of hard drives and if this is what you using then
" unsupported" simply means unsupported and is not telling you anything about the condition of
the drive.
Now you say you have a copy of FWB, have you tried to format the Seagate using FWB?
The odds are that it will. Assuming the Seagate is good otherwise. Also I think it is worth trying FWB on the
drive that you believe to be DOA.
David in WV
PS. The wording in your messages tells me you are confusing SCSI and ATA Drives.
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