what was the problem with the inability to format the hdd?

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> On 2. 1. 2015, at 1:01, Will Kubic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Alright. So I got everything figured out :D Mac OS 7.5 now boots off my 1gb 
> drive. Thank you guys!
> 
>> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 6:47:03 PM UTC-7, Will Kubic wrote:
>> For Christmas, I received a Macintosh Quadra 700. No hard drive. The base 
>> system with no upgrades.
>> 
>> So I bought an official Apple 1000mb SCSI hard drive. I installed it, 
>> plugged it in through SCSI and loaded up System 7.5's Disk Tools.
>> 
>> It will not see the SCSI drive no matter what I do. Apple HD SC Setup cannot 
>> find the drive.
>> 
>> I can hear the hard drive initializing for the first 5 seconds the computer 
>> turns on, but then it goes dead silent.
>> 
>> Do I need to have some sort of SCSI terminator on the end of the Internal 
>> SCSI cable? But that wouldn't make sense since I've never seen one.
>> 
>> The seller of the hard drive said it was fully functional, pulled from a 
>> PowerMac, and wiped. It was packaged well so I don't think there's a problem 
>> there.
>> 
>> Do I have the jumpers mixed up?
>> 
>> I just want to get System 7 running on this machine. 
>> 
>> Any help will be appreciated. 
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