I checked the Maxtor and Quantum drives in Powermax and they failed the short smart test so they probably weren't too reliable (even though the Quantum passed Spinrite just fine).
I ended up with a 10GB Seagate that passed it's short and long smart tests and seems in perfect shape, but it just doesn't work. I connected it with CS jumpered, split it evenly into two partitions and installed 8.5.1 onto one. When I booted into it nothing would work. System Profiler didn't have enough memory, the Appearance CP was missing some obscure thing etc. I know from reading the pages on xlr8 that WD and Seagate are known to be troublesome, but I don't have any other IDE drives left to try.
Tomorrow I'll see if I can flash my AHA-2940UW and see how far I get with the WD drive. I googled the SCSI card part numbers from the service manual and the 2940 was one of the options. I guess these 50-pin cards aren't meant for internal SCSI disks. Just funny that all 3 towers I got had em.
I ended up with a 10GB Seagate that passed it's short and long smart tests and seems in perfect shape, but it just doesn't work. I connected it with CS jumpered, split it evenly into two partitions and installed 8.5.1 onto one. When I booted into it nothing would work. System Profiler didn't have enough memory, the Appearance CP was missing some obscure thing etc. I know from reading the pages on xlr8 that WD and Seagate are known to be troublesome, but I don't have any other IDE drives left to try.
Tomorrow I'll see if I can flash my AHA-2940UW and see how far I get with the WD drive. I googled the SCSI card part numbers from the service manual and the 2940 was one of the options. I guess these 50-pin cards aren't meant for internal SCSI disks. Just funny that all 3 towers I got had em.