It's a seagate drive, so I wasn't too surprised when Drive Setup couldn't do the job. What's with that, anyway? Even the version that came with OS 9 wouldn't do it. Oh well. I tried a version of FWB HD Toolkit that came on a 7.6 CD I had. No luck. It told me to do a low level format when trying to quick formatting and told me to do a bad block scan when trying to do low level format, but it couldn't scan until it had been formatted. Helpful, very helpful. SCSI probe recognized the drive, but couldn't mount anything because there was no volume, as if that would do me any good. I wasn't sure if Mt. Anything could format, so I tried that, but it can't. It couldn't even give me any info about the drive. That surprised me. I headed over to Gamba's site to see what sort of formatters I could pick up there. I read a bit about some hack that copies resources and basic drivers, but it seemed like a big pain. I got a copy of Lido 7.56(?) from gamba, but it found some personal issue with the drive and refused to work on it. Next came Micronet Utility. It froze when trying to scan the drive. Oh, I almost forgot. Early on I disconnected the startup disk (so the lowest bus numbered drive would be the blank one) and inserted a boot floppy with the all-drives HDSC Setup. It failed to start from the disk, though, and gave me a flashing question mark. I didn't feel like fooling with that option.

So, here was the score of failed attempts:

-FWB HD Toolkit
-Lido
-Micronet Utility
-SCSI Probe (hoped to mount empty volume, perhaps?)
-Mt. Everything (same slim hope)

I headed back to gamba in hopes of another likely-looking utility. Nothing seemed familiar or famous, so I picked the next most recent one, FormatterOne Pro. It recognized the drive, and told me that I'd need to format it before I could partition or install drivers. Fine. I clicked format and...it's been going for 50 minutes. The watch is spinning, so I figure that means it's just taking a long time for such a big drive. I had hoped to format HFS+, but I don't seem to have been given any choice by this FormatterOne, so HFS it is. Maybe next time...

The advice I promised: Try this utility! I've uploaded it to the hotline server. Hah! Made you read my story! I win. Really my intent was to talk about this useful software, so I put it here, but if a mod so chooses I suppose I will understand if the post gets moved. Whatever, I still win. Unless my drive doesn't finish formatting...

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Update: I just checked the progress. It's been formatting for 12 hours...I don't think it's going to finish! Damn! I'll try one that worked with the seagate drive. Anyone know where to get it? Well, I'll poke around.

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Besides, these drives are louder than the jackhammers used by the foremen across the street. Not to mention the heat generated can scald the cabinet of your system if not properly insulated.

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If that's a Barracuda drive, forget it! It takes quite a bit of luck and fiddling around with the jumpers to get it "ready for initialization" on a PPC. As for a 68k, well... good luck.

Besides, these drives are louder than the jackhammers used by the foremen across the street. Not to mention the heat generated can scald the cabinet of your system if not properly insulated.

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I will note that i have a 40 gig barracuda IDE drive in my 8500 and it's amazing. It is completely silent, never had an error or anything. great drive.

yes I have a 4.2 gig seagate barracuda.

I bought mine off ebay & got great advice from the guy who sold it to me. He went on & on & on about termination. I ended up doing the termination on my 1.2 gig but still the drive wouldn't work.

When I finally got it to work it took a couple of minutes to fromat(I'm sure I think). But playing around with scsi id did the trick.

It seems that scsi itself is a bit "fiddly/tempremental"

my drive is a seagate barracuda 4.23 gig.

shaktiman

The jumper thing terrified me, I had my Quadra open & the hard drives open, but I just changed id & termination status.

I was glad not to have to go any further.

I can let the guy who sold me mine have your e-mail if you want, I can't promise anything but he was very knowledgable & helpful.

shaktiman

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