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From: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Mac SCSI hard disk installation software
Keywords: hard disk, SCSI
Message-ID: <3059@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 21:30:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: dalcs.3059
Reply-To: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Computer Shopper (Sept. & Oct.) had a recipe for putting together a hard
drive from components. I tried it and it works. The result was a 64 meg drive
for $600 complete with 1 year warrantee and good tech support. I used a
Seagate 277N SCSI drive from Hard Drives International, an AppleHive box
from Tulin, a cable from Altex, and Ephraim Vishniac's SF&I for the software.
Seagate supplied me with the information I needed to configure the
software....well, almost.

There is a problem remaining. I am unable to get the Finder to mount the
drive. The disk is formatted, and the driver works (I am able to mount the
drive using the SCSI Bus cdev), but Finder can't find it. (I know you can't
boot with the earlier versions of the MacPlus ROM's, but even if I disable the
Unit Attention, the drive won't mount from a floppy startup.)

If anyone knows the solution, I would sure like to hear from you. If anyone
want more details, I will forward them to you.

I would also be interested in hearing about other installer, formatter, driver
software which might tailor my SCSI drive for the Mac.

Thanks.

Stan Armstrong 
Bitnet: ARMSTRONG@STMARYS 
uucp: att!clyde!watmath!water!dalcs!armstrng 
Phone: (902) 423-2177 
Postal: 1607 Edward St.
        Halifax, Nova Scotia
        Canada  B3H 3H9