Hyperdrive FX-20

[AppleMacintosh]

I have a Hyperdrive FX-20 external SCSI hard drive that I acquired with a Mac Plus off eBay a few months ago. The Mac Plus works great, but the FX-20 isn't working. All attempts to rehabilitate the drive have failed. Apple HD SC Setup 7.1.1 attempts to format the drive, but it fails on verification. Apparently I need the official GCC Hyperdrive FX-20 software for it to format properly, per some internet documents I found. If anybody HAS the original floppy for this I would LOVE to get a copy of this vital software.

Thanks

AM

 

[Dennis Nedry]

This could be what you're looking for (scroll down to GCC Technology):

http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk.shtml

If all else fails, you can probably open the external drive up and replace the actual SCSI hard drive inside of it.

 

[AppleMacintosh]

Thanks for the link. I tried it, but it didn't work. I think that software is for using once you have an up-and-running HyperDrive. There must be something else.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

It could be that the drive came formatted with non-Apple drivers. It seems to me that a SCSI drive is just a SCSI drive, nothing special besides the included driver.

To format it to Apple drivers, try a hacked HDSC Setup program. It is available here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/hd.html

Try the one where it says "Apple HD SC Setup v7.3.5 (Patched)".

If that fails, try the 3.0.1 below on that page as well. I'd say if these utilities fail, the drive is likely to be bad, but you can easily open the enclosure and substitute any other SCSI drive.

 

[AppleMacintosh]

Got it fixed! Thank you for the responses. On the Mac drivers page listed on post #2 above, I found GCC DriveManager 7.0. It recognized the Hyperdrive FX-20 immediately and formatted it. Then it informed me the driver had been corrupted, and asked if I wanted to fix it. Heck yes! It did so, and it works very well now. I wish I had had this software when I first got the drive. I bet I could have repaired the drive before doing a full format. As it was, Apple HD SC Setup screwed up the format process and rendered it unusable without a total format. I wonder what was on that drive before...we will never know.

 

[jsarchibald]

It's never normally anything overly interesting. I once got an SE that was owned by a University, and then found it's way into another person's possession from 1998 to 2000. The only documents they had were all soft porn stories, and terribly written too. Sometimes, you're just better off not knowing what was on there...