Abandon hope.

I've had really bad luck with Quantums and with Barracudas over the years.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> It's possible the drives are bad.
> A few things to check:
> Are the drives properly terminated?
> Are the jumpers set up correctly?  You'll probably have to open the
> case and extract the drive to check this.  Seems like I had some SCSI
> drives that weren't for Mac and the jumpers were not correct for the
> Mac.  Internet search on your particular drive in a Mac situation
> should give you a proper jumper configuration.
> Is there a conflict with another SCSI device (same SCSI ID)?
> Just a few things to check.
> Good Luck
> lt
>
>
> Quoting jdlanza <[email protected]>:
>
> >
> > I'm getting some weird behavior from a couple of Quantum SCSI drives I
> > purchased in the past few months.  They're intended foe a couple of
> > compact Macs that I have, but I can't get them formatted.  They spin
> > up, but report "<no disc>" in Disk Utility and cannot be formatted.
> > Norton reports that the drive is not HFS.
> >
> > Isn't there a way to format these buggers?
> >
> > johnl
> > >
> >
>
>
> >
>

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