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soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
> 
> Hello Macers!
> 
> One again I come to you for help!
> 
> Could anyone tell me if there is a hard drive low formatting
> program available (either PD or commercial)? I have an SCSI
> hard drive (perfectly working on other type of machines) but
> refusing to work on a Mac. May be it is due to a low format 
> problem.
> 
> Does anyone of you is using the Seagate ST1480N? Does it need any
> driver to work with a Mac? What is the jumper setting to use it as
> an internal drive? As an external drive? 
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> 
> Richard Soubyran
> soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca

Actually I was going to ask a similar question...

However, I can say that for a Mac you have to disable Unit Attention and
SCSI Bus Parity and on some HD's Synchronous Mode Transfer Request which
Macs don't support.

I don't know what/which jumpers you'll need to disable for the Seagate
ST1480N, since each manufacturer has them in different places. You might
try calling Seagate at (408)438-6550 or 800-468-3472.

As for a formatting program for the HD, if you don't have a generic
formatter such as Casablanca's Drive 7, OnTrack's Disk Manager Mac,
La Cie's SilverLining, FWB HD Toolkit, SCSI Director etc... you might want to
consider getting one. Though the best would be to find a friend who has
recently purchased a HD and see if the formatting utility they got with
their HD will work on yours. If it does, and you like, it buy it.

I believe SCSI Tools (not the cdev) is still available at
sumex-aim.standford.edu, which _might_ be able to format your HD.
 

Which brings me to my question: A SCSI device is a SCSI device - isn't it?
And if set for a Mac (even though it was previously used on an MS-DOS
machine) it should work (if as above, the jumpers are set right) - right?

And yes, it does have it's own controller card attached to the HD, and yes
again I did call the manufacturer - HP - and guess what? They just make them
and sell them to other parties so they couldn't tell me a how to set the
jumpers!

HP model in question is 97544SC - as reported by SCSI Probe and FWB HDT.

If anybody can help with jumper settings for this HD or knows who I might
contact - other than HP - I'd appreciate it!

Thanks in advance!!!

Tom
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Tom Nakada
San Diego City College
tnakada@eis.calstate.edu