ya, i found out that osx doesn't have much if any support for older scsi devices or their manufacturors for that matter, i'm gonna try and set the connections up differently like you suggested. i really appreciate your help, thanks again!
Thanks, I'll try the running those programs, to see if thats the problem.
It does show up in OS 9.2, without a problem, and it's connection is this: from a usb hub to a Yamaha CD burner - from that to the apple external. Because my CD burner is older I had to get a USB to SCSI 2 cable, which...
I recently connected my Apple external hard drive to my machine and I know OS X is seeing it cause in the terminal I was able to get this /dev/disk/0s5 on/ (local). The only thing I can't figure out is how to actually have the hard drive mounted on the desktop. Thanks