Re: Formatting GS HD?

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 23 Feb 1998, Randy Shackelford wrote:

> Greg J. Buchner (buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us) wrote:
> 
> : It seems sort of ironic that the GS could put a generic SCSI driver on
> : HD's for the Mac when the Mac couldn't up to a short while ago.
> 
> What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? I've had a Mac device driver on my IIgs'
> hard disk as long as I've had it partitioned, and always using a Mac 
> formatter.

OK, I guess I should have been a little clearer...I meant what you get
with the standard MacOS.  If you just picked up a generic (ie., non-
Apple ROMed) SCSI drive, you had to have special software that could
handle that drive.  When I originally got a larger HD for my GS, I
decided to use an HFS partition as I had having a lot of partitions
to go through, so I decided to make sure the drive was formatted on
a Mac first so the Mac SCSI driver would be there if I ever needed to
have the HFS partition fixed.  I found at the time, with what I had
available to me, I couldn't get that drive formatted on the Mac as
no one I knew had any software that would format it.

Greg B.

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