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- From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
- Subject: Re: Low formatting...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.044445.3276@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
- References: <1992Dec28.200844.14709@cc.umontreal.ca> <C004GI.4r9@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:44:45 GMT
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- tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada) writes:
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- >soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
- >>
- >> Hello Macers!
- >>
- >> One again I come to you for help!
- >>
- >> Could anyone tell me if there is a hard drive low formatting
- >> program available (either PD or commercial)? I have an SCSI
- >> hard drive (perfectly working on other type of machines) but
- >> refusing to work on a Mac. May be it is due to a low format
- >> problem.
- >>
- -- deleted
- >> Richard Soubyran
- >> soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca
-
- >Actually I was going to ask a similar question...
- -- deleted
- >As for a formatting program for the HD, if you don't have a generic
- >formatter such as Casablanca's Drive 7, OnTrack's Disk Manager Mac,
- >La Cie's SilverLining, FWB HD Toolkit, SCSI Director etc... you might want to
- >consider getting one. Though the best would be to find a friend who has
- >recently purchased a HD and see if the formatting utility they got with
- >their HD will work on yours. If it does, and you like, it buy it.
-
- >I believe SCSI Tools (not the cdev) is still available at
- >sumex-aim.standford.edu, which _might_ be able to format your HD.
- >
-
- According to my understanding, SCSI Tools cannot format HD
-
- Mr.Sai-Kee WONG
- -- deleted
-
- >Tom
- >------------------------
- >Tom Nakada
- >San Diego City College
- >tnakada@eis.calstate.edu
-