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- From: jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
- Subject: Re: HFS formatting, ...
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- References: <jmk3.722300251@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Nov23.090223.16828@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:24:18 GMT
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- >From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- >Subject: Re: HFS formatting, ...
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- >The ADU driver trick is supposed to be used with a third-party driver
- >in the GenericMacSCSI file. My local user group came across one
- >driver that supported SyQuests and also seemed to work with most other
- >SCSI drives, but I forget its name.
- >The driver included in ADU is only guaranteed to work with
- >Apple-branded SCSI drives. It may or may not work with other drives.
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- I know; caveat emptor (or whatever) to anyone forcing the Apple driver onto
- some other drive. Is the driver you found in the public domain?
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- >> re: Mac formatted drive not working on IIGS
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- >I would be interested to know what the 8-bit program "Chinook SCSI
- >Utilities" thought of the drive.
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- I no longer have the Chinook utils (and didn't when this occurred). The 8-bit
- utils that I mentioned that were willing to format the drive were the 8-bit
- utils that came with the Apple DMA SCSI card.
-
- --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
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