NEVER MIND...I figured it out...
As with anything SCSI, it was a problem related to termination. The internal drive wasn't reading because the last drive in my external chain (my external 160MB LaCie and a CD-ROM drive) wasn't terminated...
I booted from my Disk Tools disk but swapped Silverlining for Disk First Aid and Apple HD SC Setup. All of my other SCSI devices were disconnected.
The drive formatted fine and is booting from the Mini System Folder as we speak. It will receive a fresh copy of 7.1 in a few minutes.
It's only a 40MB drive but at least it works well...it will be plenty big enough to hold the apps I'm using (Word 5.1, Excel 4.0) and some files.
As with anything SCSI, it was a problem related to termination. The internal drive wasn't reading because the last drive in my external chain (my external 160MB LaCie and a CD-ROM drive) wasn't terminated...
I booted from my Disk Tools disk but swapped Silverlining for Disk First Aid and Apple HD SC Setup. All of my other SCSI devices were disconnected.
The drive formatted fine and is booting from the Mini System Folder as we speak. It will receive a fresh copy of 7.1 in a few minutes.
It's only a 40MB drive but at least it works well...it will be plenty big enough to hold the apps I'm using (Word 5.1, Excel 4.0) and some files.