pee-air
Well-known member
...And if FWB HD Toolkit fails, then your beautiful nine gigabyte Seagate Barracuda drive is dead. It's dead, Jim!
I swapped the 2 gigabyte drive out of my Quadra 700 and replaced it with the Seagate Barracuda. I then tried to reinstall A/UX on to the new drive. Disaster struck. The A/UX installer's drive partitioner couldn't find the disk. It reported that there were no suitable drives to be found on the SCSI bus.
Not one to give up easily, I began looking for other ways to format this drive. I knew it could be formatted to work on the Mac because I had used this drive on a Mac before. I also have two other Barracuda drives in active duty. So there was a glimmer of hope.
Alas, the glimmer of hope has faded to grey. I tried everything. I started with every version of Apple's Drive Setup and HD SC I could find. HD SC 3.1 -- the version for A/UX -- crashed the system and I had to reboot. Other versions of Apple's HD SC could not find a drive on the SCSI bus. A few older versions of Drive Setup found the drive but reported it as "unsupported". More recent versions of Drive Setup found the drive and reported it as "uninitialized". Although when I attempted to initialize the drive with the newer versions of Drive Setup, it failed and said that the drive was too large to be formatted as one partition. It advised that I use the "custom setup" option to partition the drive and try again. However the "custom setup" button was greyed out and I was unable to do anything but get error messages saying that the drive was too large for a single HFS partition.
Time to bring out the big guns...
I then went to the patched version of Apple's HD SC software. It's said to work on anything but the crack of dawn. But it wouldn't work on this drive. It just crashed my system and forced me to reboot. So I went to SilverLining Lite. It formatted the drive with no reported errors, but failed when attempting to install the driver. Silverlining Pro looked like it would fare better, but it too failed. Drive 7 was my next try. That was a total waste of time. And so I ended up trying the mother of them all: FWB Hard Disk Toolkit.
I have heard that FWB can format a drive made of popsicle sticks and contact cement. But it won't format this 9 GB Seagate Barracuda. It bombs by giving me a dialog box that says, "Hardware error encountered." So it would seem that this drive is pooched... Dead... Done... Garbage.
I swapped the 2 gigabyte drive out of my Quadra 700 and replaced it with the Seagate Barracuda. I then tried to reinstall A/UX on to the new drive. Disaster struck. The A/UX installer's drive partitioner couldn't find the disk. It reported that there were no suitable drives to be found on the SCSI bus.
Not one to give up easily, I began looking for other ways to format this drive. I knew it could be formatted to work on the Mac because I had used this drive on a Mac before. I also have two other Barracuda drives in active duty. So there was a glimmer of hope.
Alas, the glimmer of hope has faded to grey. I tried everything. I started with every version of Apple's Drive Setup and HD SC I could find. HD SC 3.1 -- the version for A/UX -- crashed the system and I had to reboot. Other versions of Apple's HD SC could not find a drive on the SCSI bus. A few older versions of Drive Setup found the drive but reported it as "unsupported". More recent versions of Drive Setup found the drive and reported it as "uninitialized". Although when I attempted to initialize the drive with the newer versions of Drive Setup, it failed and said that the drive was too large to be formatted as one partition. It advised that I use the "custom setup" option to partition the drive and try again. However the "custom setup" button was greyed out and I was unable to do anything but get error messages saying that the drive was too large for a single HFS partition.
Time to bring out the big guns...
I then went to the patched version of Apple's HD SC software. It's said to work on anything but the crack of dawn. But it wouldn't work on this drive. It just crashed my system and forced me to reboot. So I went to SilverLining Lite. It formatted the drive with no reported errors, but failed when attempting to install the driver. Silverlining Pro looked like it would fare better, but it too failed. Drive 7 was my next try. That was a total waste of time. And so I ended up trying the mother of them all: FWB Hard Disk Toolkit.
I have heard that FWB can format a drive made of popsicle sticks and contact cement. But it won't format this 9 GB Seagate Barracuda. It bombs by giving me a dialog box that says, "Hardware error encountered." So it would seem that this drive is pooched... Dead... Done... Garbage.