Apple Wide SCSI card problem

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jt august - 16 Jan 2005 23:26 GMT

I have a Beige g3 with an Apple 53c875 SCSI card for wide SCSI drives.
I have an Apple branded IBM drive in it that works great, but I am
trying to get it to recognise a Seagate Barracuda ST32550W, and Disk
Utility for os x 10.2.8 does not even see it.

Has anyone here worked with one of these drives and been able to get it
recognised so that it can be used? I have downloaded the PDF's from
seagate to look at jumpter settings, and on the j5, I have jumpers on
pairs 1-2 and 5-6 for termination, and I have tried ID's 0, 1 and 4 with
no success.

Also, I found on Apple an article on updating the firmware of the card,
but said firmware has already been updated.

jt

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Henry - 17 Jan 2005 04:53 GMT

> I have a Beige g3 with an Apple 53c875 SCSI card for wide SCSI drives.
> I have an Apple branded IBM drive in it that works great, but I am
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> Also, I found on Apple an article on updating the firmware of the card,
> but said firmware has already been updated.

This may not help you at all, but it's something to think about. It
might not be the SCSI card that's the problem; it might be the HD.

Last year I got a second-hand Fujitsu hard disk from a pc guy. At first
I had a similar problem to yours. After some digging on the net, I found
a doc explaining that the hd could not be initialised under OS 9 (which
I use on that machine) but could be under OS X. So that's what I did.
After that, I put it in the 9.2.2 Mac and re-initialised--it has been
fine ever since.

Can you try / have you tried formatting yours under System 9?

cheers,

Henry

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jt august - 17 Jan 2005 07:54 GMT

> This may not help you at all, but it's something to think about. It
> might not be the SCSI card that's the problem; it might be the HD.
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> Can you try / have you tried formatting yours under System 9?

At the moment, that is not an option. As to digging on the net, I have
done an extensive level of that, although I cannot say exhaustive. But
I have been unable to find any info that specifically addresses this
model and macs together stating they do or do not work. I do plan to
conduct further research as time permits.

jt

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Christoph Gartmann - 17 Jan 2005 11:35 GMT

>I have a Beige g3 with an Apple 53c875 SCSI card for wide SCSI drives.
>I have an Apple branded IBM drive in it that works great, but I am
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>Also, I found on Apple an article on updating the firmware of the card,
>but said firmware has already been updated.

Do you want to install the Seagate as a second drive or should it replace the
IBM drive? If it is the former you must not terminate the Seagte.

Regards,
Christoph Gartmann

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jt august - 19 Jan 2005 06:58 GMT

> Do you want to install the Seagate as a second drive or should it replace the
> IBM drive? If it is the former you must not terminate the Seagte.

Right now, I am simply trying to get the Mac to recognize it. When I
try it out, I have the IBM drive disconnected, so I should need the
termination. And for the record, I have tried it both terminated and
unterminated, both without success.

jt

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