Emax

I'm trying to format a 320 MB Apple/IBM 50 pin SCSI drive (IBM-H3342-S4).  My EMAX II seems to be detecting it... sort of... but I can't get it to select under the drive select menu.  I have played around with the jumpers to get the error message to change from "SCSI X not found" to "Not EMAX2 drive".  This is what leads me to believe it's being detected, but just needs to be formatted.  Do I have to do this prior to hooking it up to the EMAX?  Please help! This may just be a simple problem because I don't know what the heck I'm doing.

Thanks,
Everett

ok, so I finally figured out how to start the formatting process.  Now I get a hardware error after a little bit.  Prior to the format, the drive sounds like it's polling or something... then during the "formatting..." portion the drive quiets down, but goes back to the repetitive noise after the failure.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I have also noticed that sometimes the drive is not recognized until I go to another SCSI device id and then back to the one assigned to it.  Is this possibly just an incompatible drive?  It reads out the drive model on the screen, so it's got to be somewhat compatible.  I'm confused... old technology is so finicky.

Are you sure the drive is good?

If there is some repetitive clunking, the drive could have bad (crashed)
heads.



On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:04 PM, evy_newt <evy_newt@...> wrote:

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>
> ok, so I finally figured out how to start the formatting process. Now I get
> a hardware error after a little bit. Prior to the format, the drive sounds
> like it's polling or something... then during the "formatting..." portion
> the drive quiets down, but goes back to the repetitive noise after the
> failure. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I have also noticed that
> sometimes the drive is not recognized until I go to another SCSI device id
> and then back to the one assigned to it. Is this possibly just an
> incompatible drive? It reads out the drive model on the screen, so it's got
> to be somewhat compatible. I'm confused... old technology is so finicky.
>
> 
>


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Not 100% sure... I don't have another 50 pin SCSI device to test it on.  It doesn't sound like the IDE "click of death" but it is from 1993.  I have a DOA policy on it, so I have to find a way to test it out I guess.