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Article #33810Mac SCSI hard disk installation software
From: Stan Armstrong
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 21:30
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 21:30
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Computer Shopper (Sept. & Oct.) had a recipe for putting together a hard
drive from components. I tried it and it works. The result was a 64 meg drive
for $600 complete with 1 year warrantee and good tech support. I used a
Seagate 277N SCSI drive from Hard Drives International, an AppleHive box
from Tulin, a cable from Altex, and Ephraim Vishniac's SF&I for the software.
Seagate supplied me with the information I needed to configure the
software....well, almost.
There is a problem remaining. I am unable to get the Finder to mount the
drive. The disk is formatted, and the driver works (I am able to mount the
drive using the SCSI Bus cdev), but Finder can't find it. (I know you can't
boot with the earlier versions of the MacPlus ROM's, but even if I disable the
Unit Attention, the drive won't mount from a floppy startup.)
If anyone knows the solution, I would sure like to hear from you. If anyone
want more details, I will forward them to you.
I would also be interested in hearing about other installer, formatter, driver
software which might tailor my SCSI drive for the Mac.
Thanks.
Stan Armstrong
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!dalcs!armstrng From: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Mac SCSI hard disk installation software Keywords: hard disk, SCSI Message-ID: <3059@dalcs.UUCP> Date: 27 Oct 88 21:30:00 GMT Article-I.D.: dalcs.3059 Reply-To: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong) Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 29