At the time I had FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 3, and it came with a utility that allowed you to access the drive parameters and change pretty much everything, including block size. I had this problem when I was using some scsi drives in my PowerTowerPro.
#Softraid cannot initialize drive mac os x#
I know that Mac OS X Disk Utility isn't as picky, but that's not much help to you. The next time the user starts the computer, the hard disk may now be corrupted and unusable. A reason for this, is to not replace a security driver which may have moved vital data on the hard disk.
#Softraid cannot initialize drive drivers#
I had a similar problem with drive setup not wanting to format drives.ĭrive Setup will not attempt to update the drivers on a device being controlled by a third party driver. So I guess at this point I have a few questions:ġ) Do I need to format this drive to use 512-byte sectors? (And if so, what util will do this?)Ģ) If I can use the drive as-is, what util should I use to initialize it so that it will boot the system?ģ) If I'm not following the correct procedure, then what is the right path? View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Powering up then gave me a "Question mark" diskette looking for a boot volume. When that completed successfully, I shut down the computer, removed the previous system HD, and jumpered the IBM as SCSI ID 0 and set proper termination. I then popped in the OS9 CD and installed the system to this new drive. It completed successfully and the partition's icon appeared on the desktop - 'so far, so good' I thought. Since I have two of these drives, I used one to try a format with the ATTO util. It correctly reports the drive type/model as IBM DCHS504F and the size of 4.24GB. It will let me format the drive, but I'm hesitant to do so with such an old program.Īfter some searching I found the ATTO ExpressPro-Tools util (v2.8.1).
I first dug up Lido 7 (old, I know), which reports the drive size as 8652MB - roughly double the actual capacity. OK, I can understand that but I wanted to get more info than what Drive Setup provides. In the drive list, this drive is listed as " " and when I click on its entry, it reports "Cannot initialize a disk with non 512-byte sectors." My goal is to use the IBM as the boot drive. These drives (I have 2) were advertised as being "Mac compatible" but Drive Setup won't format them - this is when booting the system from an HD that already has 9.1 installed. I'm having difficulty trying to use an IBM 4.5GB SCSI drive in a PowerMac 7600 (304MB, upgraded to G3-450).