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SCSI woes
Okay I am now 3 for 3 on hard drive not working in my 700. Starting to lose my mind.
First drive is a Hitatchi U320 146GB SCA-2 80pin drive with adapter system completely fails to notice it tried different cables passive passthrough terminators active termination using my external enclosure completely invisible to the mac.
Drive 2 Seagate ST34501W 68Pin drive attached using a 50 to 68 pin adapter on the logicboard drive is recongized but reports capacity as 0MB, 0 blocks HDT and Linux report Medium Error Medium format corrupt.
Drive 3 IBM DDRS-34560 68pin drive also recongized by system reports proper capacity 4.5GB but again HDT and Linux report Medium Error Medium format corrupt.
The drive I got with the system a 540MB Quantium Drive works perfectly.
My scsi chain is as follows Internal IBM Drive ID 0 with active terminator on cable, External Zip100 drive ID 6, Apple e600 CDROM ID5, Quantium 540MB in a APS Drive enclosure ID 1 and active termination provided by enclosure. I believe everything is terminated correctly.
I am completely stumped, I think I may just save for one of the SCSI2SD adapters hopefully that will just work
First drive is a Hitatchi U320 146GB SCA-2 80pin drive with adapter system completely fails to notice it tried different cables passive passthrough terminators active termination using my external enclosure completely invisible to the mac.
Drive 2 Seagate ST34501W 68Pin drive attached using a 50 to 68 pin adapter on the logicboard drive is recongized but reports capacity as 0MB, 0 blocks HDT and Linux report Medium Error Medium format corrupt.
Drive 3 IBM DDRS-34560 68pin drive also recongized by system reports proper capacity 4.5GB but again HDT and Linux report Medium Error Medium format corrupt.
The drive I got with the system a 540MB Quantium Drive works perfectly.
My scsi chain is as follows Internal IBM Drive ID 0 with active terminator on cable, External Zip100 drive ID 6, Apple e600 CDROM ID5, Quantium 540MB in a APS Drive enclosure ID 1 and active termination provided by enclosure. I believe everything is terminated correctly.
I am completely stumped, I think I may just save for one of the SCSI2SD adapters hopefully that will just work
it was me 
Yeah i personally have alot of invested time in finding a good source of HD's that work, all the way back to Mac II and Mac SE.
i had given up after about 5 or 6 different drives.
But then James Told us about Those Seagate Savvio drives, and they work.
not many do.
Max has had some level of success, with his hand made adaptor and some other SCSI drives.
most do not work.
Yeah i personally have alot of invested time in finding a good source of HD's that work, all the way back to Mac II and Mac SE.i had given up after about 5 or 6 different drives.
But then James Told us about Those Seagate Savvio drives, and they work.
not many do.
Max has had some level of success, with his hand made adaptor and some other SCSI drives.
most do not work.
A drive that new will have absolutely no backwards compatibility beyond Ultra160 SCSI.
Use another formatting utility. A patched copy of Drive Setup should work with anything.
Same as above, also take it from me that I have no faith that a Linux formatting utility will reliably make an HFS volume.