Mark Holtz (mholtz@intermag.com)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:59:42 -0800
Kevin:
While I haven't tried putting many different types of hard drives in, I
have had occasion to put certain drives in that just refused to show up,
yet worked fine on other Mac platforms. For the most part, I've stuck
with IBM 4GB mechanisms, and haven't had much trouble, but you can expect
that some just aren't going to behave, at least in my experience.
As far as Kris' mention of the infinite M_REJECT loops, when trying out a
new drive, I usually add boot with a:
linux ncr53c8xx=safe:y
kernel args line through quik, which throws the SCSI system into the
'safest' mode it can, so at least I can be reasonably sure it's a SCSI
hardware interface issue, but rather some protocol problem with a drive
that doesn't talk the way the ANS would like it to.
There's a good bit of discussion in the list archive as well about boot
line options to make SCSI drives behave better without sacrificing -all-
your performance.
_MH
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