science@nems.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann) (10/08/89)
Help! - my new Mac IIcx doesn't want to recognize the internal 80 MB disk
drive, and won't let me initialize it ... any advice?
It's a 4 MB memory cpu, with an A/UX sticker on the outside (product number
"M5690", "Mac IICX A/UX HD80 CPU"), with an 80MB internal drive ... I also
just got an external 80 MB disk with A/UX 1.1 factory-installed on it, and that
part works fine (I initialized UNIX on it following instructions). The IIcx
is also happy to run with an old CMS 60MB external drive.
Clues/evidence: the light for the internal drive flashes many times (about
twice/second) before boot-up, but Apple's HD SC Setup program doesn't see
any SCSI drives to work with, nor does Apple's Disk First Aid. On the other
hand, CMS's SCSI Utility v 3.2R *does* detect a drive at ID 0, but complains
of an error when trying to gets some of its parameters (it reads out that
the drive is a QUANTUM P40S). Wm. Long's SCSI EVALUATOR v 1.00 also can
detect that a drive is hooked to SCSI ID 0, but can't do anything with it.
(The internal drive light again flashes briefly when any of these programs
looks for a device at ID 0).
On the hypothesis that the drive might think it was a UNIX device, I tried
using the UNIX 'mount' command, with variations, none of which worked. I
also tried zapping the PRAM (cmd/opt/shift while opening control panel) with
no effect.
I hesitate to apply the CMS SCSI Utility program's 'initialize' command to
reformat the internal drive, but that's my next likely course of action. Is
that unwise??
Any other advice as to how to make the system recognize that internal drive?
I wouldn't have thought that this is just a bad Quantum 80MB disk (on a brand
new machine). Is there some other way for me to zap the PRAM or otherwise
reinitialize the internal drive parameters? I vaguely recall other people
discussing such problems many months ago here or somewhere else on the net(s),
but don't have a record of the answer(s).
Many tnx -- ^z (Mark Zimmermann, 'science@nems.dt.navy.mil' internet,
[75066,2044] CompuServe, tel. 301-565-2166....)