hooking them up to a PC with a SCSI card is also a good way of testing the drives, if you got an old P2 box laying around and a cheap Adaptec card
(at least on Adaptec cards) it will do a low level format, which checks the drive sector-by-sector, and wipes out everything at least once-over. a drive that spins up yet appears to be junk when installed in a mac, can sometimes be "fixed" using this method too (wiping out the apple partition map or whatever) its how i got my Mac Classic running again after a fouled format On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > > > > OK sorry if this is a stupid question. I have some old mac machines in my > > garage but am not a mac person per say. I also have some external hard > drives I > > would like to be able to test and sell on cl or ebay. > > Can someone tell me how to test them I know they need to be connected to > a mac > > machine then there are keyboard commands to make the machine boot or > mount the > > hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. And what machine,classic,color > > classic etc would be best for testing them. > > > > > > Well, you need to have a bootable Mac with an external SCSI port. This > includes most if not all Vintage 68K Mac's and all PowerMac's thru the beige > G3 and beyond if it has a SCSI card. Then you will need the appropriate SCSI > cable to connect the drive. > > If the drive is properly formated it should mount without any special key > strokes. If it does not mount go to HD SC Setup, Drive Setup or Disk > Utilites depending on what Mac OS you are using and see if the external is > recognized. If no joy, report back. --glen > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
