Bob, Henry, et al:
Thanks for the advise. I have tried initializing with all extensions off,
tried it with the HD erased, (i.e. no other system software except whats on
the boot floppy), and other forms of voodoo. Nothing works.
I do note that the HD came with a "third party" driver installed, (get info
says FWB ID 0, 1.7.5) and I am wondering if I would actually need their
software to get this thing to format. Hmmm. The patched Apple 7.5.3 won't
do it.
Oh well. Appreciate the attempts at help.
Have a nice turkey day folks. I at least did get PPP working, now
struggling with sendmail......
Clarence


>Sounds like there's some Extension getting loaded.  I thought I'd seen
>this before with a disk that was used with disk optimization or
>protection software.  You might try booting from the floppy with all the
>Extentions disabled.  If that doesn't work I have a couple of programs
>guarented to destroy Apple Disk Partition Maps.  However, I've found that
>if a 68k Mac can't find a SCSI device to load a driver from it will sing
>a heart-stopping Sad Mac chime. Recover can be "interesting". ;-/
>
>-bob


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Clarence Carlson
Philospher and Curmudgeon