Re: Formatting GS HD?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

[snip]

: Or, use Advanced Disk Utilities, which ensures the best performance on
: the GS.  A low level format from it resets the interleave.  As long as you
: don't plan to use the drive on a Mac, this program does a better job.  If
: you do want cross platform access, just put an old Mac driver in the GS
: System drivers folder and Advanced Disk Utilities will do the trick.

I'd use Chinook SCSI Utilities if I wanted to use an Apple II app. It does
low level formatting with selectable interleave and can lock out bad blocks
at the hardware level too. 

BTW I've never heard of anyone getting ADU to install a compatible driver
in the APPLE_DRIVER partition.
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