Problem installing 2nd hard drive on 6100 Mac

plauscher · #1 July 30th, 2005, 06:51 PM

Hi everyone
I'm trying to put in a 2nd hard drive on my 6100/66 Macintosh and am unable to get the drive to mount. I have system 7.5 on my original drive and am using MT EVERYTHING to try to find the problem. MT EVERYTHING shows the 2nd drive in its listing, but I get a message of NOT READY from it. The drive spins up for about 10 seconds when I send a MOUNT or INFO command. Anyone have this problem before?

**Buzz** · #2 July 30th, 2005, 08:12 PM

Have you checked the jumper settings?

plauscher · #3 July 30th, 2005, 08:30 PM

Yes, It's a Seagate ST34371WC hard drive. I wrote to their tech support and they said the drive should be unterminated since it was in the middle of the SCSI chain. Start delay is off. The only thing jumpered is the SCSI ID #, which is set to 2. It isn't a new drive, but was supposed to be working OK. I was mostly wondering why the program MT EVERYTHING was saying that it wasn't ready. I'm not very familiar with SCSI drives. There is a clunk sound just before the drive stops, I don't know if that's a problem or just the head parking. Thanks for your help

**Buzz** · #4 July 30th, 2005, 09:03 PM

What's the drive size? Older Mac weren't aware of any drive larger than 8gb.

plauscher · #5 July 30th, 2005, 09:17 PM

It's a 9G. I had planned to logically partition it since OS7 couldn't handle drives bigger than 2G.

( I have an interesting problem with the old drive, which is what I want to replace. It doesn't boot up until it's about 80 or 90F. )

**Buzz** · #6 July 31st, 2005, 05:20 AM

I don't really know what to say. If jumpers are set correctly and the drive is in working order then Drive Setup should see it.

The temperature thing sounds like a logic board issue to me.