c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (11/10/90)
Here's some more information regarding my problems with my DataFrame XP40+40 hard drive. Hooking up a DataFrame XP40+40 external hard drive (SCSI) to a Mac Classic, 1MB RAM, no hard drive, your basic Classic. No other SCSI devices on the chain, and I've got a SCSI terminator on the other SCSI port on the drive. The XP40+40 has a tape drive built in, as SCSI 1, and I can use it perfectly-- format, copy to/from tape, etc. no problem. But, when I run Manager 4.1E, their drive format/partition/utility software, it displays the following in a dialog box: Under SCSI 0, an icon with a ? in it, and where there's suppowsed to be a disk name or a disk type, there is a blank (null) field. Under SCSI 1, an icon with a tape in it, and where there's supposed to be a disk name or disk type, there's a string "DataStream" (this is OK, no probs here) No other SCSI devices on chain When I click on SCSI 0, to initialize it, it says: (something to the effect of) "There is no media in "". Please insert media." (and I thought hard disks were sealed in the case) Now, whenever I turn on the unit, the Hard Drive spins up to full speed and is ready to go, but , as little as 1 minute and as much as 1 hour of operation, after that, the drive powers down. The rest of the electronics (cooling fan, tape drive, etc.) are still on; the hard drive has conked out. I'm running a minimal System 6.0.7, no INITs, no DA's except Chooser and Control Panel, no CDEV's, etc. I've also tried under 6.0.3 and 6.0.5, with no success. The SuperMac drive is a 40 mb external SCSI hard drive, with built-in 40 MB tapebackup unit. I'd say it's at least 1.5-2 years old. It's worked before, on similar machines. One more thing: it's recently been shipped from southern California. The shipper was UPS next day air. Possible freight damage? I didn't notice any dents or anything, but there doesn't have to be any dents. The package looked rather beat-up; at first I thought it was just an old box they had used, but maybe not...? ______________________________________________________________________________ Donald Burr, c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.edu | "I have a seperate mail-address University of California, Berkeley | for flames and other such nega- Majoring in Computer Science | tive msgs; it's called /dev/null."