Academician
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:O I'm having some horrible luck with my Macs lately...
I just got a 4.0Gb Apple 50 pin SCSI HDD to put in my Centris only to find that it, like many things, wont work.
I first attached it to the SCSI cable on the second connector with the original 80Mb drive in the first like it always has been. I booted up into System 7.5 and it did not recognize the new HDD, not even to format it.
Next I hooked it up on it's own, and removed the original drive, still no joy. I used a 7.5 Network Access Disk to boot the system as I got a "no bootable disk" error if I booted without it.
Then I plugged it into the last connector where the original drive used to be and still got nothing.
Of course I figured it had to be a jumper setting, so I looked up the exact settings on the net and found that the jumper was already set to Terminate, so it should have been good to go.
I've even tried to remove the jumper entirely, on both cable connectors, with and without the original hard drive. So far, nothing.
I have felt the drive as the system powers up and it does seem to spin.
I do not have any other macs or PCs with a SCSI interface, so if I don't get it working here I'll be kinda screwed.
I hope you guys can help me, I have little experience with SCSI even though I do know the basics (A+ Certified, even).
-Shawn
I just got a 4.0Gb Apple 50 pin SCSI HDD to put in my Centris only to find that it, like many things, wont work.
I first attached it to the SCSI cable on the second connector with the original 80Mb drive in the first like it always has been. I booted up into System 7.5 and it did not recognize the new HDD, not even to format it.
Next I hooked it up on it's own, and removed the original drive, still no joy. I used a 7.5 Network Access Disk to boot the system as I got a "no bootable disk" error if I booted without it.
Then I plugged it into the last connector where the original drive used to be and still got nothing.
Of course I figured it had to be a jumper setting, so I looked up the exact settings on the net and found that the jumper was already set to Terminate, so it should have been good to go.
I've even tried to remove the jumper entirely, on both cable connectors, with and without the original hard drive. So far, nothing.
I have felt the drive as the system powers up and it does seem to spin.
I do not have any other macs or PCs with a SCSI interface, so if I don't get it working here I'll be kinda screwed.
I hope you guys can help me, I have little experience with SCSI even though I do know the basics (A+ Certified, even).
-Shawn