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Format Mac ext scsi hard drive

Where can I get the softwear to format a Quantum Atlas 10K III HD.

Have tried Quanatum and Maxo and get lost in their automated ans. system and can not find the proper formatting softwear.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bill Hobart
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Will the Mac not handle the drive by itself?

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You should be able to use HD SC Setup (at least that's what it used to be called) to format the disk.  Is it properly terminated, etc?

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Have tried HD setup to the version in sys 9 no luck.
How about HardDisk Toolkit-PE:
http://www.fwb.com/cs/pe/main.html

Or this patch for SilverLining Lite:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/pub/slpatch.html

Or this patched Drive Setup 1.3:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/pub/drvst13l.html

Or LIDO:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/lido7.html

Or HD SC Setup 3.01 (somewhat complicated using BinHex to convert text to a .sit file):
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/hdsetup.html

Disk Drive TuneUp:
http://www.softarch.com/us/products/ddtu.html

Hopefully one of those will help you!  You don't happen to have a version of Norton Utilities do you?  If not and you do alot of Mac work, you should invest in it, great stuff!

-dog*

caltnl:

Did any of these work for you?  Please return and provide some feedback for us!

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So far one of them said that ID 6 was there but non of them will let me format the drive.

Bill
Let me get weed in on this question...he's the resident Mac guru/advocate...

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If you have the proper card and drivers installed (your SCSI card actually supports SCSI-3 right?) and the proper termination/jumper settings, the drive should either show up on your desktop at startup, OR it will ask you to reformat at startup. If it doesn't and programs like Drive Setup dont show it in the list, then its not properly connected, drivers arent installed, or its not terminated properly. If you know you have everything hooked up right with the right drivers, try SCSI Director which can run a diagnostic on the drive and reformat/init any drive. If that fails, you may have just gotten a bad drive. Wouldn't be the first time UPS has killed a drive.
wisdom...thrown down from the mountain...

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What is SCSI director?  Drive came from Frys maby thats whats wrong.

FYI i"ve been running Mac's since a plu and I've never had this bad a problem.

Bill
SCSI Director is one of thos offbeat drive tools that handles more than the usual disk tools. Very handy. I still think youve got a card/driver problem or possibly a mechanism issue. It's got to be either termination, unseated card, uninstalled driver, or a just plain dead drive. I've never seen a bad OS install mess with drive recognition. Don't think its even possible since thats probably handled by the firmware.
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Weed,

The drive is sitting in the middle of my scsi chain with a scanner first then the drive I can not format then a Apple external hard drive and lastly a Zip drilve.  Everything is working on both sides of the Atlas drive.

Where can  I find a copy of SCSI Director or buy a copy?

Bill
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My thanks to Weed.