Re: Quadra 660 disk problems

> I've rarely found a SCSI drive that can't be formatted with the patched
> Apple formatter.

I have yet to find the HD which requires a patched formatter, although 
i am sure they are out there.  But in this case, since these disks all 
have Apple logos on them, i'm quite sure the standard, unhacked Apple 
formatter is sufficient (provided it is one of the later versions).  
The version which shipped with MacOS 8.1 should work.

The HD driver may need to be updated before the HD Utility will allow 
the disk to be formatted.

> You seem to have found 3. I'd suggest that you consider
> that the problem is not with the drives per se, nor the formatter, but
> where they are hardware-wise... Are you trying to format them while 
> they're
> housed in a particular external case or on the same socket of a 
> particular
> ribbon cable? Do you get the same error if you swap the internal and 
> the
> external drives, or for position on the cable? etc.

Or could be a SCSI termination issue!!!!
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