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Re: Won't start !

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From: David Byram-Wigfield
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
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In article <B1CD7DA8966844D8C@cara.demon.co.uk>, peter@cara.demon.co.uk
(Peter Ceresole) wrote:

>In article <B1CD67AD96682093EA@hearsay.demon.co.uk>,
>slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:
>
>>Even though SCSI Probe is called what it is, it'll mount IDE drives
>>too, as long as they're working correctly.  I don't know if this
>>just happened or whether it was done for backward compatibility.
>>If the drive won't mount with SCSI Probe then not only is it not
>>bootable but it's broken.  See if Drive Setup will admit it exists.
>
>It all seems to have settled down:
>
>SCSIProbe 4.0 sees only the SCSI Zip drive in slot 6 and the un-named
>device in slot 7, which I presume is the Mac's SCSI controller. Updating
>makes no difference.
>
>Drive Setup sees all the drives but calls the SCSI Zip "not supported" on
>bus 0, id 6. It sees the two HD partitions as the same ATA disk on bus 0,
>id 0, the built in Zip as a "Zip 100" and the CD-ROM, both as ATA drives on
>bus 1.
>
>If I ever wanted to reformat my larger, 3.5Gb partition as HFS+ (not yet
>but maybe one day), what software would I use?
>
Re: Won't start!
In article <B1C8F158966813768@cara.demon.co.uk>,
peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

> Any thoughts on mounting these ATA drives after booting from the SCSI Zip?
> A forlorn hope? Or is my system just being erratic?
 
Peter,
I have something called Red Line 2.0, which was able to reformat and mount a 
Syquest 44 that became invisible to every other utility you can shake a
stick at; 
DFA, Norton, Spirit Mounter, SCSI probe, SilverLining Lite, Uncle Tom's
Cobblers and all.

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From: byram@removethis.cappella.demon.co.uk (David Byram-Wigfield)
Subject: Re: Won't start !
Date: 1998/07/12
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