Having some trouble with a hard drive...

[phreakout]

Okay. I've got a Power Macintosh 7500 (see signature) with a 68-pin Ultra 160 SCSI LVD/SE Adaptec controller card. The model number of the card is AHA-2940U2B. It says on a label/sticker "MAC APPLE"; plus I know this card works on the PM, as it has in the past for me.

I'm trying to attach a Fujitsu hard drive (MAN3367MP) 36 gigabytes 10,000 RPM to add in with the dual 9 gigabyte hard drives that are presently installed. I tried booting off of a CD copy of Mac OS 8.6 install and use the Disk Utility to set the drive up. The drive shows up when the busses are scanned, but the ID label comes up as "".

I'm guessing that I just need to update the driver for that hard disk. If so, should I be using a different program? Which one would you recommend? I was hoping to use the drive for either as a data backup storage or just use that drive to boot from. I haven't decided yet. But I'm wishing to get the drive repartitioned and formatted, since it was once used on a Windows XP machine.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[PowerPup]

Apple prevented third-party drives by not allowing people to format drives that do not already have the Apple drivers on them. (Not sure if I said that accurately, but you get the idea.)

http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk/Old_SCSI_HD_Utilities.sit
Use Lido (in that package, along with patched HD SC Setup) to format your hard drive.

If you need help with that package, I'll PM you a image for a Lido boot disk.

I like the patched HD SC Setup. Animates the cursor so you know that it didn't freeze while formatting.

 

[Gil]

You can also patch Drive Setup, which is better than HD SC Setup, IMO. It's not very hard to do.