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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: SCSI HD for MAC & PC = REFORMAT?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.230433.6863@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec11.200146.6758@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Dec16.144912.13323@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Dec16.163340.13887@mcs.anl.gov>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:04:33 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.163340.13887@mcs.anl.gov> peterson@vulcan.mcs.anl.gov (nosreteP ekiM) writes:
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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!
-
- The drive should be found by the SCSI controller on power-up. The
- controller should come with a format utility to format drives to its
- satisfaction.
-
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