riem@ztivax.UUCP (Raimund Riem) (08/08/89)
We bought a cheap internal HD180 (SCSI) from Fujitsu for about 2300.- DM ($1000). It has a mounting size of 3.5". This HD is not special for the Macintosh. We connected the HD to the SCSI Port and tried to inititialize it with the HDInstall program. The program did not recognize the connected Hadrdisk. We found out (with FEdit), that in the HDInstall program is stored a list of the internal SCSI names of all Apple product HDs. We changed one name to the name of our Fujitsu HD and... HDInstall recognized the new Hd, because the HD was formatted by the manufactor, formatting was not allowed. "Testing" the HD by the HDInstall program failed also after some minutes. In the next step we used the program "SCSITools". With the help of this program we wrote a driver to the Harddisk. After rebooting the Macintosh II, the Finder recognized the Fujitsu HD and told us, that he he has to initialize the Harddisk. After that the Filesystem was installed and everthing works fine with this Fujitsu Harddisk. We want to use this disk with some partitions for AUX. But HDInstall fails to install or to test this HD. The generic driver in AUX 1.0 also failed. Has someone an idea what to do ? Only for the MacOS its a cheap solution to get a big capacity. (and a fast one, because average accesstime is about 25ms). But for AUX we have still problems. Thanks in advance. Raimund Riem, Steinsdorfstrasse 6, D-8000 Muenchen, West Germany unido!ztivax!riem
Bob_LaserMan_Murrow@cup.portal.com (08/11/89)
Raimund, after tyou hacked the HDinstall program to get it to format the drive do the following...at least this works for me... select the PARTITION option, select CUSTOM, DELETE both partition! the OS one and the user one. Now quit and restart. It should let you do what you want. ie put a UNIX partition on it. Bob Murrow
riem@ztivax.UUCP (Raimund Riem) (08/16/89)
In article <21176@cup.portal.com>, Bob_LaserMan_Murrow@cup.portal.com writes: > Raimund, after tyou hacked the HDinstall program to get it to format the > drive do the following...at least this works for me... > select the PARTITION option, select CUSTOM, DELETE both partition! the OS > one and the user one. Now quit and restart. It should let you do what you > want. ie put a UNIX partition on it. > Bob Murrow Thanks for your information, but the "Partitions" Button, the "Format" Button are not enabled for this drive.