Well, I picked up a very clean 200MB external syquest drive with cartridge at the local hamfest for $15. I figured why not.
I decided to hook it up to the mac and the disk appeared to have been freshly formatted by its previous owner, as it had a 1956 creation date. So it was done on a Mac as well.
I dont have any Syquest software, or utilities. no mounting anything, All I had was SCSIProbe installed.
But for testing sake, I went ahead and opened lido to do a Format. Well, thats when it all went to shit. format failed. became an unrecognized file system. So thats when I decided to try HD SC, it failed. Drive setup failed..
So from that point i decided to run norton utilties to recover the volume but it just kept hanging up with the busy light on the drive. with a single click every so often.
Ugh... oh well... Maybe the disk needs low-level formatted again, but I dont have any of the Syquest stuff.
I decided to take the mainboard out of the drive to find some electrolytic caps. I dont see signs of leakage, but it is a 1992 drive so i am sure they arnt good!
I decided to hook it up to the mac and the disk appeared to have been freshly formatted by its previous owner, as it had a 1956 creation date. So it was done on a Mac as well.
I dont have any Syquest software, or utilities. no mounting anything, All I had was SCSIProbe installed.
But for testing sake, I went ahead and opened lido to do a Format. Well, thats when it all went to shit. format failed. became an unrecognized file system. So thats when I decided to try HD SC, it failed. Drive setup failed..
So from that point i decided to run norton utilties to recover the volume but it just kept hanging up with the busy light on the drive. with a single click every so often.
Ugh... oh well... Maybe the disk needs low-level formatted again, but I dont have any of the Syquest stuff.
I decided to take the mainboard out of the drive to find some electrolytic caps. I dont see signs of leakage, but it is a 1992 drive so i am sure they arnt good!