Re: Formatting GS HD?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
>
>: >BTW I've never heard of anyone getting ADU to install a compatible driver
>: >in the APPLE_DRIVER partition.
>
>: Randy, I searched through my collection of programs and found the one I
>: previously told you about.  Run it once to extract the Generic Mac driver
>: and ADU will format cross platform hard drives.  I am going to post the
>: program, GenEx, to comp.binaries.apple2 so that you and others can use
>: it.  I'm posting the doc file from the program here for you to look at.
>
>Uh, I guess that's cool. But I don't plan to reformat a perfectly functioning
>hard disk for the sake of using this program. Especially considering the
>rigmarole you go through to use it as opposed to using HD SC setup.

Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I find that for
formatting a hard drive for the GS, Advanced Disk Utilities is easier to
use than HD SC setup.  Basically, when formatting a HD for a Mac, use
a Mac but when formatting a HD for a GS, use a GS is my philosophy.
I do go through the extra bit of effort to use GenEx to get a Mac SCSI
driver so that ADU can make the drive readable on a Mac, but you have
to patch HD SC to work with non-Apple drives anyway!  You do know
that if you are formatting an Apple drive, ADU will install a Mac driver
without the need to use GenEx, right?

Looking at it objectively, here is your method (the one using the older version
of HD SC setup because the new one makes the driver partitions visible on
the GS):

>formatted my 230 mb with an older version of HD SC setup and made a 30 mb
>HFS volume and a 200 mb A/UX volume. Then I put the disk on my IIgs and erased
>the 30 mb to ProDOS and the 200 mb to HFS. Now only the HFS volume shows
>up on a Mac, which is what I want, and I get no errors.
>
>Another important thing to remember is that HD SC setup needs patching to
>work with non Apple supplied drives.

To summarize,

1) Dig out an old version of HD SC setup
2) Patch it (if using non-Apple drives)
3) Partition and format on the Mac
4) Move the drive to the GS
5) Erase the partitions to ProDOS or HFS

Compare this to using ADU:

1) Run GenEx to grab the GenericMacSCSI driver from ADU
   (only if non-Apple drive)
2) Run ADU to partition and format for ProDOS or HFS

Which method involves more hoops?  I say yours, but again everyone is
entitled to their own preferences.  Jay Krell, the author of GenEx, also
reported problems when using HD SC setup to format for the GS, if you
read the doc file I posted, but that's probably for a very old version of that
program.