I don't know if this is the same problem, but I tried using an IBM Ultrastar ES 2 GB SCSI drive in my Mac IIci computers, and even the patched version of Apple HDSC setup rejected the drive. However, a MicroMat Drive utility did work after much fiddling around. (I don't remember the exact name of the utility, but i'll send it and the link to it if i can find out) I ended up having to partition the drive into two seperate volumes, due to the HFS filesystem limitations.
I had a very hard time swapping the old 2gb HFS+ out of the powermac and into a 68k. HDSC didn't think much of the drive complaining about partition tables or some such. Through trail and error I found one of the tools found here http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/hd.html would correctly format the disk after which the disk was partitioned for OS7.1, 7.5.x and debain using HDSC.
I think it was either formatter one or the latter micronet, deffinatly came from gamba's page and was only used so HDSC could make use of the drive.
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