Okay, that's two hard drives now. The nine gigabyte Seagate Barracuda can't be formatted on a Classic Mac OS machine no way, no how. Now my lowly little two gigabyte IBM Apple ROMed hard drive is exhibiting problems. This one I can get formatted, but the disk setup software bundled with the A/UX installation media won't touch it. It's reporting a hardware problem. And I know for a fact that there is nothing wrong with this particular drive.
IRIX does something to hard drives that the Macintosh operating system just does not like. I don't know if it changes something that probably shouldn't be changed or what, but IRIX appears to be the common denominator. Both drives worked perfectly fine before they became the unsuspecting prey of the IRIX 6.5 Installation Tools CD. What gives? What does IRIX do to poor defenseless SCSI hard drives that makes them forget who they are?
IRIX does something to hard drives that the Macintosh operating system just does not like. I don't know if it changes something that probably shouldn't be changed or what, but IRIX appears to be the common denominator. Both drives worked perfectly fine before they became the unsuspecting prey of the IRIX 6.5 Installation Tools CD. What gives? What does IRIX do to poor defenseless SCSI hard drives that makes them forget who they are?