mrapple@quack.UUCP (Nick Sayer) (10/14/89)
Since last I posted about this problem, I've managed to get
an Adaptec ACB-4000 SCSI controller and an NEC 40 MB hard disk
formatted as a 43 MByte Mac SE hard disk after some serious
hacking, and with help from ephraim@think.com (thanks!).
Now the only trouble is that as well as this setup works as
a Mac drive, it is useless as a //gs drive. After properly
formatting it on the mac, I plug it into my Apple // SCSI
board, Rev C., which is in my //gs. The first attempt to
access the drive turns on the access light and leaves it
on for a very long time (>5 mins), then comes back claiming
the drive doesn't exist. Running the "HDFORMAT" program
(available from Applelink) results in a seek to track
0, then a "SCSI Error 27," which tells me nothing, except
that I've noticed that the ProDOS error #27 is "I/O error."
Is there some difference in the way the Apple // SCSI card accesses
a SCSI drive and the Mac SE accesses it? Obviously the directory
structures are totally different, but this trouble is obviously
occuring on a deeper level than that...
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