NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/hardware/33389

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Subject: Re: SCSI HD for MAC & PC = REFORMAT?
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    Speaking of SCSI for the MAC & PC, I've recently bought a
SCSI drive that was pulled from a MAC. It's a Quantum LPS240. I've
never had a SCSI drive before, only IDE hard drives where you entered
the setup info in the the hard drive tables stored in the CMOS RAM. I've
just recently purchased a SCSI adaptor for this drive (it hasn't arrived yet),
but I'm wondering how I would go about installing this drive. I'm told that
the drive does not have setup information to be entered into the CMOS
setup. How then is the drive recognized? Also, since the drive was in a
Mac, I'll need to format it, right? Will DOS's FDISK and FORMAT do the
job? Or is a low-level format required? Thanks for your help!

        Mike


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