Re: HFS formatting, ...

[jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)]

>From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
>Subject: Re: HFS formatting, ...
 
>The ADU driver trick is supposed to be used with a third-party driver
>in the GenericMacSCSI file.  My local user group came across one
>driver that supported SyQuests and also seemed to work with most other
>SCSI drives, but I forget its name.
>The driver included in ADU is only guaranteed to work with
>Apple-branded SCSI drives.  It may or may not work with other drives.
 
I know; caveat emptor (or whatever) to anyone forcing the Apple driver onto
some other drive. Is the driver you found in the public domain?
 
>> re: Mac formatted drive not working on IIGS
 
>I would be interested to know what the 8-bit program "Chinook SCSI
>Utilities" thought of the drive.
 
I no longer have the Chinook utils (and didn't when this occurred). The 8-bit
utils that I mentioned that were willing to format the drive were the 8-bit
utils that came with the Apple DMA SCSI card.
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu