On 2 Oct 2005, at 11:33, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
What I usually do with SCSI drives that give me guff
on a Mac is to low level format them on an Adaptec
2940 PCI SCSI controller in a PC. There's no
operating system involved since it runs from the BIOS
on the controller.
<lots of good SCSI advices>
All good sound advice, but in my case it's all old news I'm affraid.
I think in the case of Quantum drives the nonsense that makes em play
up on non-PC controllers is hardcoded onto the ROM.
To give you a recent example, I hooked an Atlas IV up to my Amiga
1200 Tower (if you don't know don't ask ;o) ) SCSI chain and the Hard
Disk utility refused to even talk to it. It didn't see it at all. I
took that drive off and hooked up a Seagate Barracuda in exactly the
same chain with hte same settings and bam - it came straight up.
That's not to say of course John might have a stray jumper somewhere,
but there is definitely stuff to be wary of with Quantums. Low
Levelling on a PC might solve it but I currently don't have the
facility to do that.
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