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 > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
