Re: Chinook SCSI utilities

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4291o6$j3r@crl7.crl.com>,
Raymond D. McAnally <raymac@crl.com> wrote:
> Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
> : John Le Febvre (john@klatch.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : : Has anyone got a copy of the Chinook SCSI utilties disk that they could
> : : e-mail to me?  Apparently it can give my SCSI drive more than two 
> : : partitions but is not available any more...
> 
> : No can do, it's still copyrighted
> 
> Talk to Jawaid, he owns it. I suggested he update it and sell it as a 
> stand alone program, but there wasn't much interest.

Do you mean that Jawaid owns the distribution rights to the program,
or that he owns a copy of it?

I also own a copy of it, and I would very much like to see it widely
available again - ideally as Freeware.

This would require getting in touch with the author (Craig Peterson)
and getting his permission to distribute it.  Even better, getting the
source code to someone who would be prepared to do some work on it...

It could certainly do with a few minor upgrades: supporting more than
nine partitions, for example, and being able to create partitions
larger than 65535 blocks.  Apart from those limits, it is by far the
best set of SCSI utilities for the Apple SCSI cards.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand