rickk@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Rick Klaus) (06/25/91)
I am having an odd problem with exteral SCSI drives on an SE, and was wondering if anyone has any insight on the problem... My mom has an internal 20MB drive which has always worked just fine but has always been a bit too small. I managed to get a couple of surplus 40 MB apple drives and placed them in an external case. I put them on my IIfx here at work and everything worked as expected... the drives mount at startup and I can select either one as the startup device as long as they have system folders. I can also boot off of my internal drive. When I hooked the drives up to Mom's SE, the machine wanted to boot off of the external drive with ID=6. Just fine since this is the highest priority on the chain. However, the internal drive does not show up on the desktop. Well I took the disk manager software that I had and tried to mount the internal drive... the SE hung. I turn the external drives off and then restart... the SE boots fine. Now I turn on the external drives and try mounting them with the disk manager and that works! I thought maybe I had some driver problems since the disks were formatted on an fx, so I tried reformatting one of the external drives with HD SC Setup. Everything went fine until it tried to mount the drive and it couldn't perform this task. Go back out to the disk manager program and try to mount and it works just fine again! Finally, I tried removing the system folders from both external drives and then rebooting the machine. It accesses one of the externals, shows a happy mac, and then the happy mac goes away. It then looks at the second external drive with similar results. Finally it accesses the internal drive, does nothing, and then starts the whole process over again (infinite loop entered)!! In summary, I cannot get all three drives to show up on the desktop at boot time. If I boot off an external drive the internal drive cannot be mounted at all. If I boot off the internal drive, the externals can be manually mounted with the disk manager, but they will not show up at boot time. If anyone has any ideas on what may be happening and how to fix it, please let me know!!! Thanks Rick Klaus rickk@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com