Re: Formatting GS HD?

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"Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us> wrote:
>
>On 22 Feb 1998, Randy Shackelford wrote:
>
>> BTW I've never heard of anyone getting ADU to install a compatible driver
>> in the APPLE_DRIVER partition.
>
>Well, I've done it a lot with ADU.  Inside of ADU there is ageneric MacOS
>driver which can be extracted by a program someone wrote once upon a time.
>It's been a long time since I used the program, but have kept the Mac SCSI
>driver in my driver folder since then.  I have a 44MB SyQuest on my GS and
>had a 200MB SyQuest (both of the 5 1/4 inch variety) and I could take the
>carts from the GS and mount them with no problems on my Mac and that SCSI
>driver would work just fine.

Greg, I too have used this program long ago, but I've forgotten the name.
Could you look in your collection of programs to let us know?  I am sure
this information is helpful to many.  I went to the liquify server and found
http://liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2/Collections/AOL/
development/applications/EXTRACT.SHK, which may or may not be
the right file.

>
>It seems sort of ironic that the GS could put a generic SCSI driver on
>HD's for the Mac when the Mac couldn't up to a short while ago.

It is much easier and efficient to format a cross platform drive in ADU
on the GS than on the Macintosh.  You don't have to fake format, move
around, erase, and all that jazz.  If you could provide the name of the
file, we could possibly get this information into one of both of the Apple
II FAQs for all to know.