So i decided to do just this, looked on ebay, only thing i thought of that i would find a small scsi drive in was an old mac... sure enough i won a mac SE on ebay and went to go get it from south london on the train heh. I thought it might have a 40 or an 80 meg drive, sadly it has the stock components, 1mb ram (256k simms) and a 20meg scsi hard drive... and when i booted it up, it sounds suspiciously like the fluke......
I usually just buy bare drives themselves on eBay, but i guess you got a "free" SE out of the deal!
but the problem now is that i can't seem to format it from the service disk, which format option should be used to format it? old setup was western digital/miniscribe 8425... options are : - western digital / miniscribe 8425 - western digital / tandon tm362 - adaptec 4000 / miniscribe 8425 - adaptec 5000 / miniscribe 8425 - rodime 6052 with disconnect - rodime 6052 without disconnect - rodime ro3057s
after choosing to format under any of these configs, I get a further option of formatting with dma or without dma, which option should be selected?
You need to use the V1.4 service disk, which has the "scsi format" options. You'll set it to a generic SCSI drive (either 256 or 512 byte sectors), instead of all those specific options. The setup/format utility disk you're using doesn't have the correct options for formatting a generic SCSI disk.
also, might i be missing something on the scsi ID setting, would this cause these sorts of problems? it came from the mac, so would assume id:0 .. is this what the old mfm controller tells the scsi interface that its plugged into? or is it another id?
HD0 maps to device 0 with the standard device descriptors that Fluke provided, and yes, thats what the MFM adaptor maps to. The tape backup would run device 1 if you installed that externally. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist