Mystery appears to be solved!
It appears that the problem all along has been my target drive - a 4 GB Seagate 15150N. It worked fine last time I used it, but now it seems to have borken. I tried connecting my other little SCSI drives to the external bus of my 8600 and they are detected just fine. The 15150N I can get recognized by FWB as a device, but with no capacity, and it throws up vague errors when it tries to format the drive. Unfortunately, this was the perfect size drive, and the only GB+ SCSI drive I had free for this. So I now get to rethink my plans.
Thanks for the help all! I try to be methodical but it can be easy to lose perspective when the troubleshooting goes badly.
It appears that the problem all along has been my target drive - a 4 GB Seagate 15150N. It worked fine last time I used it, but now it seems to have borken. I tried connecting my other little SCSI drives to the external bus of my 8600 and they are detected just fine. The 15150N I can get recognized by FWB as a device, but with no capacity, and it throws up vague errors when it tries to format the drive. Unfortunately, this was the perfect size drive, and the only GB+ SCSI drive I had free for this. So I now get to rethink my plans.
Thanks for the help all! I try to be methodical but it can be easy to lose perspective when the troubleshooting goes badly.