SE/30 Sees Multiple Drives (only one drive)

[massiverobot]

Hello, I have a SE/30 that hasn't been on in about 4 years. The internal HD is corrupt enough that it won't boot from it.

I built a new System 7.5.3 boot disk using a Jaz drive, and while this boots on SE/30 on this other one it does boot however after it boot the mac acts like there are 6 of these jaz drives, when there is only one.

I'm waiting for a replacement internal SCSI drive from ebay, but was wondering why the mac would act like this- I've never seen it before. The bad internal drive does not even appear on the desktop.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Can you hear the internal drive spinning? It may just need to be low-level formatted if so. Try the HD SC Setup program and see if you can find SCSI ID 0 and format it.

If you don't hear the drive spinning, give the whole Mac a good horizontal twisting motion back and forth when you first turn it on. That might make it spin again.

 

[Byrd]

Definately a termination issue - if the (external) drive is not properly terminated, six "phantom" drives will appear on the desktop. Thankfully, you should be able to turn on termination flicking the little tab with a pen on your Jaz drive.

JB