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Tony <Tony@millington.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>         Regarding the Hard Disk on this II cx machine.
> Turned out not to be a software problem at all.
> It was not working because the hard disk was sticking.
> A goodly thump got it working, but problems continue 
> and I don't want to kill it by repeated thrashings.

The best thing to do is turn it on and leave it on until you've got the
new HDD; switch off just long enough to plug the new one in and get the
data transfered as soon as you've partitioned/formatted/whatever the new
drive.

[snip]

>         Will any SCSI drive do or has it to be one specially
> for the Macintosh ?

Any SCSI disc will do, but...  Not all SCSI drives can be formatted,
partitioned, and so on by Drive Setup so you *might* have to buy a
third-party formatter if you don't buy a Mac drive; if you buy a Mac
drive, make sure that it comes with a `free'[1] formatter; Charis Mac's
Anubis utility is common.  Not all firms do supply a formatter when you
buy a Mac drive; Dabs Direct didn't when I asked them and also told me
they didn't even *sell* a Mac HD formatting package.

Rowland.

[1] The cost of this to the drive's maker is obviously included in what
you pay for the HDD.

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