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From: [e-mail] (Marty Zimmerman)
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Subject: Help me understand Mac SCSI drives
Date: 18 Aug 1992 15:01:50 -0500
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I'm completely confused here: I'm trying to help someone who bought
a Conner 120M SCSI drive for an SE/30 to replace his dead 80M drive.
HD Setup (from System 6 or 7) can't find a SCSI drive on the system
when I try to initialize it.  Do I need some special software to do
the job?  Another friend recommended SF&I, but it comes set-up for
a Seagate(?) 20M drive, and I can't figure out the instructions well
enough to re-configure it for the Conner 120M.

Any advice?  Do I need commercial software?  Is there another
shareware package besides SF&I?  Easier to operate, if possible :-).
Is there some trick with the termination that I'm missing?

2nd problem: I'd like to move a 160M drive from a Quadra 900 to a
IIci as a replacement for its 80M drive.  Again, HD Setup says there
is no SCSI drive to initialize when I get to that step.  The local
Apple sales rep says it should work, but there may be termination
problems because the 160M was from a "dual-SCSI" system.

Thanks in advance for any tips.  All of the Apple tech reps in the
Pacific Northwest are in training this week.  Just my luck.

Marty Zimmerman                 Bitnet:   martyz@idui1
                                Internet: [e-mail]
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho, USA