zuiko21
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Hi all. Got a decent deal on these two HDs. They arrived physically well, but with marginal packing
Anyway, I formatted them (not low-level) using the patched version of Drive Setup 1.5 -- I did it first on the SE/30 running 7.5.5. Aware of the problems of large volumes with older Macs, I decided for the following partition scheme:
Disk 1: one small (circa 200 MB) partition, then two partitions a tad below 2 GiB (2047 MiB each)
Disk 2: one small partition (about 300 MB) and a large one (4000 MB)
On each disk's small partition I copied, as is, the running 7.5.5 System folder (installed for any Macintosh). This is not the main issue here, but no matter how I try (Startup Disk control panel, System Picker, key combos...) the SE/30 won't boot from it, reverting quickly to the internal HD... but the disk mounts fine after booting.
On the other hand, my 7600 with G3 card boots perfectly from this very same disk with the very same System software! Maybe the driver installed by this version of Drive Setup (8.0.9, if memory serves) is not suitable for booting a 68030 machine? I may try the patched HD SC setup instead...
But here's the original question: once on the 7600 booted from another HD, I issued Drive Setup's Test Disk command on my newly purchased IBM drive, but after a few minutes the test was ended upon an unrecoverable error :?: I then reformatted the disk low-level, to no avail. Then I went for Formatter One Pro and its Non-destructive test giving similar errors. After reformatting with that tool as a single, large partition, the test lasted much longer but was eventually aborted by the unexpected error xx(
But prior to bashing the seller } I did another test: filled the disk with several, largish DiskCopy read-only images with checksum -- they all mounted perfectly which, as far as I know, means it could read every single byte in order to compute the checksum, and they were read well.
So... can I deduct that the disks are actually fine, but the test got interrupted somehow?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Anyway, I formatted them (not low-level) using the patched version of Drive Setup 1.5 -- I did it first on the SE/30 running 7.5.5. Aware of the problems of large volumes with older Macs, I decided for the following partition scheme:
Disk 1: one small (circa 200 MB) partition, then two partitions a tad below 2 GiB (2047 MiB each)
Disk 2: one small partition (about 300 MB) and a large one (4000 MB)
On each disk's small partition I copied, as is, the running 7.5.5 System folder (installed for any Macintosh). This is not the main issue here, but no matter how I try (Startup Disk control panel, System Picker, key combos...) the SE/30 won't boot from it, reverting quickly to the internal HD... but the disk mounts fine after booting.
On the other hand, my 7600 with G3 card boots perfectly from this very same disk with the very same System software! Maybe the driver installed by this version of Drive Setup (8.0.9, if memory serves) is not suitable for booting a 68030 machine? I may try the patched HD SC setup instead...
But here's the original question: once on the 7600 booted from another HD, I issued Drive Setup's Test Disk command on my newly purchased IBM drive, but after a few minutes the test was ended upon an unrecoverable error :?: I then reformatted the disk low-level, to no avail. Then I went for Formatter One Pro and its Non-destructive test giving similar errors. After reformatting with that tool as a single, large partition, the test lasted much longer but was eventually aborted by the unexpected error xx(
But prior to bashing the seller } I did another test: filled the disk with several, largish DiskCopy read-only images with checksum -- they all mounted perfectly which, as far as I know, means it could read every single byte in order to compute the checksum, and they were read well.
So... can I deduct that the disks are actually fine, but the test got interrupted somehow?
Thanks a lot in advance,