Installing a new hard drive on a Quadra 700 is a fairly easy task. The side cover (or top, depends on your Mac orientation preference) is attached by a slotted end towards the front face and then released by pulling up two tabs at the rear.
There are two flexible rubber feet that can be pulled away, allowing the cover to be removed.
Once opened, the hard drive can be easily located on the side next to the power supply. All of the components (including the power supply) can be removed as separate modular systems.
The hard drive is removed by squeezing both sides of the two metal tabs of the hard drive caddy. Removing the ribbon and power cable to finalize the release.
The hard drive replacement is a Maxtor 7345SR 345MB 50-Pin 3.5" SCSI Hard Drive. However, not all SCSI connections are the same. This unit requires a 50 pin double row SCSI connection with the larger 4 pin molex power connector.
The hard drive is attached to the caddy by four screws. Remove them to attach the new drive and then reinstall the caddy back into it's place and connect the cables.
This is an easy install, however... it was not quite so easy getting the Macintosh Quadra to recognize the hard drive!
A Macintosh computer has a special utility called Apple HD SC Setup. This utility can be found in the Tools Disk. Running this utility should "find" the hard drive and set it up, However... not in this case.
This problem had to be solved with a third party utility by FBW Hard Disk Toolkit.
FWB Hard Disk Toolkit PE v1.6 can be found at http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/fwb-hard-disk-toolkit-v16-v163-update . This will make a bootable disk with the hard drive utility called RAID Toolkit. Booting this diskette, will bring up a menu with the following information. The installed Maxtor hard drive can now be seen.
To make the Quadra "see" this hard drive, it needs to be mounted. The tab is located on the far right of the RAID Toolkit GUI. After mounting, I made the choice to partition the drive as two equal parts.
Everything seems to be solved, BUT... the oddities still continue. Installing the Mac system 7.1 disks will not boot the Quadra. The Computer has to be booted with the Disk Tools diskete and then the System Finder has to be copied to the new hard drive.
The Quadra is rebooted (Disk Tools disk removed) and then the installation disks are installed.
Everything seems fine, but a run of the Apple HD SC Setup, still shows that the Mac Quadra does not have an attached SCSI device!
did you solve this?
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