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- From: prj@gamba.lcs.mit.edu (Paul R. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Duo/SCSI details
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.201017.21699@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec13.022403.8321@ee.ubc.ca> <jamesb-211292151517@leafs.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:10:17 GMT
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- In article <jamesb-211292151517@leafs.apple.com>, jamesb@apple.com (James Blair) wrote:
-
- > To a desktop machine the SCSI DiskMode "hard drive" behaves like a standard
- > Macintosh hard drive. The driver that is loaded by the boot code (or
- > something like SCSIProbe) is the Apple HD SC Setup driver that is installed
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > on the internal Duo hard drive. Unless you unmount the drive by dragging
- > the drive icon to the Trash in the Finder you should *NOT* undock the Duo
- > from the MiniDock (if you did the results would be the same as if you cut
- > power to a mounted hard drive...you will start to get disk access error
- > dialogs.)
- >
- > reat the SCSI DiskMode drive as if it was a normal external hard drive.
-
- Does this imply that if I reformat mu Duo drive with Silverlining and install
- the Silverlining disk driver I run the risk (certainty??) of losing the ability
- to mount the Duo in SCSI DiskMode?
-
- ---Paul Johnson
-