From: John Rollins <rexstout_at_ptld.uswest.net>
Subject: Mac II problem
>Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to
>type it all again ;-)
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>Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics
>keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
>to think was a second video card...
Good price. Though I myself would never have THAT much desk space available...
[snip]!
> Finally the normal
>System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
>Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
>take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
>can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
>Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
>Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Most likely the hard drive is a non-Apple drive (i.e. a Quantum or whatever
without the special Apple ROM). Apple rigged it's drive setups to only
format identifiable Apple HDs. If this is the case there are two options:
1. Locate a 3rd party drive utility like FWB HD Toolkit which works with most
SCSI drives, there are a couple on the net but no gaurantees...
2. Check web for the sites that have the patches to the HD Setup progs.
to format a non-apple drive anyway. (they are out there, and some are harder
than others to do.) I went this route on my external drive, it works great.
Here is the site I had found:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html
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Received on Wed Mar 25 1998 - 23:17:08 GMT