Bernoulli Extensions

[CelGen]

I'm yrying to get a Bernoulli 230 drive working with my macs but while the system can see the drive it can't mount anything or even complain about the disk being unformatted and such. Iomegatools does not see it either. Is there a utility specific to the Bernoulli I require?

 

[Dennis Nedry]

I don't believe that the Mac will ask you to initialize unless a Mac hard disk driver is on the hard drive and working properly. The driver is something that gets put on the drive behind-the-scenes when you format it with a hard drive formatting program.

If this is a SCSI hard drive, try formatting the drive with the patched HD SC Setup from Gamba:

Download:

ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/macintosh/Software/Utilities/hd_sc_setup_735-patched.sea.bin

( Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/hd.html )

If this doesn't work, let us know, there are other things you can try too.

 

[CelGen]

the bernoulli is technically not a SCSI hard drive and the mac sees it as a removable device.

 

[protocol7]

When you say Iomegatools doesn't see it, do you have the Iomega Bernoulli driver installed?

 

[CelGen]

Exactly that. I do not have an extension installed and it appears that it's not included with iomega tools. I need to find out where to get it.

 

[protocol7]

There's a "Iomega Bernoulli" driver listed on Mac Driver Museum, but the link is dead. I did grab a copy at some stage though. Here it is. I guess it has support for the drives built-in.

 

[CelGen]

That worked. Thank you so much.

 

[protocol7]

Great

 

[Jeffe7FQ]

I realize this is a very old thread… but we're talking about even older computer equipment, so…

If you insert a disk/cartridge in the Bernoulli drive and then reboot the Mac, the system will (should) recognize it without the driver/extension. This is similar to how you don't need a driver for a hard drive to be recognized.

It's been a while, but I don't remember if the disk had to be formatted for Mac for this to work. I kinda' think it wasn't necessary, but I'm not sure. (And I don't have the equipment easily available to test.)

I also don't remember if using this trick gave the drive full functionality. As in, I'm sure you could eject the mounted disk, but I'm not sure if you re-insert it – or another disk – it would mount.

 

[olePigeon]

You'd need to use SCSI Probe, Anubis Utility, HDT Mounter, or some other similar SCSI utility. Sometimes it well let you "Init" a removable cartridge so you don't need specific drivers, then have it auto-mount at startup. But, yeah, having the drivers is useful so you don't have to fiddle with utilities that don't always work.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Iomega Driver 3.5 should do it but the patched HD SC Setup is a better route.

 

[Cory5412]

Bernoulli carts aren't really hard disks or even fixed disks, will patched HD SC Setup set up a removable cartridge so it can be ejected and a new one can be inserted and mounted automatically?