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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP!!  My Hard Drive's Dead!!
Keywords: hard drive die died dead crash crashed uh-oh...
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Date: 10 Nov 90 03:40:10 GMT
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Reply-To: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Ok, I've got a *BIG* problem with a hard drive I just bought.

It's a SuperMAC DataFrame XP40+40, 40meg external SCSI with built-in 40mb
tape backup.  I've got it hoooked up to my Mac with a SCSI cable.
Is everything happy?  NOOOOOO!!!!

First off, the drive isn't even recognized.  The tape drive IS, however.
I can format tapes, copy to/from tapes, eject tapes, anything!
But the hard drive isn't registering.  I run their program ("Manager")
to format the drive, it comes up with a dialog listing all SCSI devices
present.  For SCSI 1, it shows the icon of a tape; this is great, because
the internal tape drive is SCSI 1.  But, ffor SCSI 0, it shows a icon of a
question mark (?).  No other SCSI devices are shown present.  This is weird
because:

(a) The program is suppposed to say what type of drive it is, below the
icon.  So, the icon for the disk drive should look like a hard disk, and it
should say "DataFrame" below it, since this is the drive type.  but the
icon is a "?", and it has NO NAME whatsoever below it.

(b) The hard drive is SUPPOSED to be SCSI 4, not SCSI 0 or anything.

What can be done about this?  I can't find any sort of SCSI switches on the
unit (perhaps inside it?) to change drive #, etc.   None of the format
and partition, etc. commands work, because they don't even recognize
the drive.

Please email any questions, answers, suggestions, etc, to me at
c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.edu, or on here.  Thanks in advance.
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