Re: SCSI hard drive question

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From: David C.
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:43

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pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> writes:
> 
> I bought a 9.1 gig SCSI hard drive for my PowerMac 7300/180, but when
> I ran Drive Setup, and cliked on the drive, I got the message -
> 
> 'Cannot modify a disk with non 512 byte sectors'
> 
> and the initialize button is greyed out so I cannot initialize
> it. Does this mean that I cannot use this drive? Or is there some way
> around this?

Apple's Drive Setup utility, when used on SCSI drives, doesn't
generally like to work with third-party drives.  Which is annoying,
since it works just fine with third-party IDE drives.

As someone else wrote, a third-party formatting tool should work.

I know of three, all of which are commercial products.

CharisMac's Anubis ($89):
        http://www.charismac.com/Products/Anubis

LaCie's SilverLining.  Unfortunately, I think this utility can no longer
be purchased as a standalone product.  It is bundled with many LaCie
products.

FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit ($89):
        http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html

-- David

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