Joe_Luzzi.FULLERTON_CC@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU (Joe Luzzi) (03/12/91)
Time: 10:24 AM
Date: 12/21/90
Subject: Re: DIY hard disk drive
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Does anyone know if Quantum drives work on the Apple DMA-SCSI card? I've tried
two Quantum drives from two different manuafacturers (MacLand Quantum 170 and a
Protege 210 from MacAvenue) and both drives would act very strange.
I could see the drive, but I'd always get a format failure from Advanced Disk
utilities. Sometimes I could format the drive, partition it, and it would seem
ok. Then the drive would become unreadable. The drives would not appear to
prodos 8 unless I removed the external termination. But the drives still acted
funny. The only explanation I can think of is that the Quantum drives don't
supply terminatin power to the bus. My Rodime 140 Plus works fine.
Anyway, I'll probably try a Connor based drive next. Anyone using a Quantum
and a Apple DMA-SCSI card?
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (03/12/91)
Joe_Luzzi.FULLERTON_CC@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU (Joe Luzzi) writes: >Anyway, I'll probably try a Connor based drive next. Anyone using a Quantum >and a Apple DMA-SCSI card? I was, for a while. I have a Quantum P105S from Hard Drives International. When I first got it, I had an Apple DMA SCSI -- I used both the P8 utilities and ADU to partition/format and neither gave me any problems. Later I sold my DMA SCSI and bought a RAMfast. Still no problems, this time using the RAMfast's built in HD management software (rom 1.2 I think). Maybe the Quantums have internal termination you haven't removed? Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) (03/12/91)
In article <9103112230.AA19536@apple.com>, Joe_Luzzi.FULLERTON_CC@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU (Joe Luzzi) writes: > > Time: 10:24 AM > Date: 12/21/90 > Subject: Re: DIY hard disk drive > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Does anyone know if Quantum drives work on the Apple DMA-SCSI card? I've tried > two Quantum drives from two different manuafacturers (MacLand Quantum 170 and a > Protege 210 from MacAvenue) and both drives would act very strange. > I could see the drive, but I'd always get a format failure from Advanced Disk > utilities. Sometimes I could format the drive, partition it, and it would seem > ok. Then the drive would become unreadable. The drives would not appear to > prodos 8 unless I removed the external termination. But the drives still acted > funny. The only explanation I can think of is that the Quantum drives don't > supply terminatin power to the bus. My Rodime 140 Plus works fine. > > Anyway, I'll probably try a Connor based drive next. Anyone using a Quantum > and a Apple DMA-SCSI card? I have a Quantum ProDrive 40S that I bought from a mac mail order house as an internal drive and put into an old ProFile case. I have had no problems using it with my DMA SCSI card. It came low level formatted and so I just did a partition and high level format. These drives are supposed to only format at 1:1 interleave regardless of your specifications due to the cache which is why I did not try to reformat it. I am using internal termination rather than external. Both partitions appear and can be used from all the software I use. -- Stephen Harker phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Monash University