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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Apple HD SC Setup won't recognize my 3rd-party hard drive?
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Date: 18 May 91 17:06:54 GMT
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I have a Tulin 50Mb hard drive with an Adaptec ACB4000A controller
board, and one thing I noticed but was never able to figure out was
why the Apple HD SC Setup program never could see it -- whenever I ran
the program, it told me something like `no suitable devices found
connected to the SCSI port.'  I figured this was because the hard
drive's driver was incompatible.

Well, I heard the Apple HD SC Setup program that comes with System 7.0
is compatible with third-party drives, now, and a thorough check of
the System 7.0 Reference book found no mention that it was only for
Apple drives or anything.  So I tried running this latest version of
the program right after I updated my hard drive's driver with
Silverlining (which I understood was compatible with the HD Setup
program).

It still couldn't find my drive.  What am I not seeing here?  Is it
just that my drive isn't capable of doing whatever it is that the HD
Setup program modifies the driver to do, or have I just not found the
right driver yet (and if not, then where should I look)?

Apologies if I'm being vague -- I've never really understood what the
HD Setup program is supposed to do.  Can anyone Enlighten me on that
point?

advThanks,

     << Brian >>

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