Re: Formatting GS HD?

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

Greg J. Buchner (buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us) wrote:

: > 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.

I used a shareware program called SCSI Director on my first partitioned
hard disk. You don't need special software, any formatter will format
any hard disk. With the exception of HD SC setup's not liking non Apple
supplied hard disks, and you can patch the app to cure that.
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