On 4-Mar-04, at 11:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote:
I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in Mac OS Standard format.
Having read a few more of the replies to your original message, I tend to agree with Jeff Garrison that you really ought to try to initialize these drives in the Macintosh in which you intend to use them, the IIsi. That would mean you would need to be able to boot the IIsi either with a startup diskette like a Disk Tools which has the software to allow you to format the drive, or a CD-ROM drive (sounds from Jeff's message as if he is talking about removing the INTERNAL CD-ROM from your PPC 6100 and transferring it temporarily to your IIsi, but this could also be accomplished with an external CD-ROM drive as long as it has Apple ROM's in it.) if you have a bootable CD with the appropriate software, OR from some other External hard drive that has appropriate startup and formatting software.
Furthermore, in my experience with installing third party hard drives inside older Macintoshes, it is often the case that they are not compatible with Apple's drive setup or initialization software and I have had to use a third party utility like SilverLining in order to initialize the drive.
I still get the impression that at least one of these two drives is not properly SCSI terminated. In my experience, this problem can be masked by putting a terminator directly onto the external SCSI port, or if you are running an external SCSI device off that port which IS properly terminated the internal becomes mountable until such time as you remove that external SCSI device for some reason.
Good luck!!
Jim Foster
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