I have been trying to replace the HD in an old cube and am having trouble. I had a Seagate Baracuda that it will not even detect for some reason, and an older Quantum Viking II. The Quantum seems to come up fine, but when I try to install the OS on the drive it fails when it is formatting the disk. Floppy and SCSI CD seem to be working great.
I am pretty sure it is terminated correctly, but I have to admit I had a TERRIBLE time finding info for the jumpers, so there could be something wrong there. I have the drive set to power the terminators, but there does not seem to be any internal termination option. Originally the drive was externally terminated. I added a terminator to the end of the cable to solve that issue. I set the SCSI ID to 1 as this is the Default for NeXT. The drive is a 9 GB drive and I suspect it may be too large.
Does anyone know if you must keep the drive size below 4G? Also it is a 320 Ultra Wide, with a 50 pin adapter, so there COULD be an issue there, but I would be surprised.
Any information would be appreciated.
I think I will answer my own post here. After looking searching it looks like there is indeed a 4G limit under 4.2. My problem is I've got no way to boot this at the moment other than the install CD, so creating disktab files or modified scripts would be ... hard. I might be able to do something with a vm maybe. I have an OpenStep vm working but no way to read/write 2.88 floppies.
I think my best bet here is to find a drive that is less than 4 Gigs. Anyone one know a good place to go for that :)
I can do e-bay I guess.