FAQ Update Alert! (Re: Help: ADU and sharing a hard drive between a mac and 2gs)

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goble@kin.on.net (David. E. Goble) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>>
>>Formatting itself will not install ADU's genericSCSI driver.
>>It is the partition command that does the trick.  You
>>mentioned that the old ADU will partition.  Try using the
>>old ADU first to set up one partition, formatting that
>>partition, then zeroing it.
>>
>>Now take that drive to the new ADU and try to repartition
>>it.  Hopefully, the new ADU will now do the trick and
>>install the genericSCSI driver for the Mac.
>>
>Nop! Still no go.
>
>I even tried booting from system 5.0.2 and running the new ADU, but it
>said that it can only run under system 6 or higher.
>>
>>Me too.  Have you tried partitioning, formatting, and
>>zeroing the drive on a PC first?  This may destroy the
>>Mac data that's causing ADU to have problems with
>>the drive.
>>
>Yes I have. One point thou, the problem was there before I connected
>the drive to the Mac. The problem showed when I first tried
>repartitioning the drive (for the first time, after its initial
>partitioning and formatting) with the new version of ADU.
>>
>>Also, which SCSI card do you have?  ADU will not
>>work properly with the RamFAST SCSI card.  With
>>such a card, ADU cannot partition.  You have to do it
>>with the RamFAST utility.  Sadly, that utility does not
>>support instaling the genericSCSI driver for the Mac.
>>
>I have Apple's Apple II high-speed SCSI card (607-9220) A0220LL/A.
>
>Guess what :> I think, out of accident, I figured it out.
>
>My system has a Pc-Transporter and I have patched Prodos to recognise
>the Pc-Transporter as AEPCRAM. I had copied this patched Prodos to my
>system 6.0.1 boot disk. Mainly due to the fact I have forgotten how I
>did the patch.
>
>After creating another boot disk with an ordinary Prodos and with HSF,
>SCSI stuff and the genericMac driver, ADU worked and I was able to ldo
>what I wanted.
>
>Sorry for the trouble.

No trouble at all.  I think Steve N. of the ground FTP server had
a similar problem some time ago.  This may be the reason.

>Why on earth would this affect the new ADU from partitioning?

I don't know but I hope Rubywand puts this solution in the
FAQ right away.

Thank you for sharing the solution with csa2.