dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) (06/27/91)
I recently bought a 210 meg Seagate SCSI hard drive from a nearby company that sells disks with very little overhead. By very little overhead I mean that I got just the disk and cables. (and yes, I knew what I was doing when I ordered from them.) Trying to format the disk with SilverLining gives repeated errors. Apparenly SilverLining can't talk to the disk at all. The gory details: Mac IIsi with internal 80 meg disk, System 7. The SCSI ID of the Seagate is 5; I'm assuming Apple followed their normal practice of making the internal 0. I tried it both with and without a terminator attached to the external drive (I'm assuming there's already one internal to the Mac.). Most drives ordered from companies that deal with Macs regularly (this one usually does Suns and PC's) come pre-formatted. Is there some sort of low-level format I need to do, and if so, what software tools do I need to do this? Or is my drive screwed up and I should call up the folks I bought it from and scream? Thanks for your help. -- David G. Paschich Open Computing Facility UC Berkeley dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu Go Colorado Rockies -- Opening Day, Mile High Stadium, April 1993