Re: Formatting GS HD?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
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>Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
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>: Or, use Advanced Disk Utilities, which ensures the best performance on
>: the GS.  A low level format from it resets the interleave.  As long as you
>: don't plan to use the drive on a Mac, this program does a better job.  If
>: you do want cross platform access, just put an old Mac driver in the GS
>: System drivers folder and Advanced Disk Utilities will do the trick.
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>I'd use Chinook SCSI Utilities if I wanted to use an Apple II app. It does
>low level formatting with selectable interleave and can lock out bad blocks
>at the hardware level too.

Did you know that the Advanced Disk Utilities also locks out bad sectors?
ADU is a little tricky to use, but if you own the manuals, you'll find out
some kewl tricks.

>BTW I've never heard of anyone getting ADU to install a compatible driver
>in the APPLE_DRIVER partition.

According to documentation, ADU first looks at the GS System drivers
folder for a Macintosh capatible driver to install in said partition.  Now if
the disk is an Apple brand disk, such as the old 20 meg one that came
out around the time of the GS, ADU checks for the Apple ROM on the
drive and upon verification installs ADU's own copy of the Mac driver in
the drive.  If the drive is not an Apple brand drive, a Mac driver has to be
in the GS System folder for Mac capatibility.  There is also a third party
freeware program that rips out ADU's Mac driver and transfers it to the
GS System folder for use with third party drives.  All this is pretty well
documented if you care to look for it.  Just go to grind server's mirror
of ground and use the search feature or look for it in Apple's or QC's
System 6.x manuals (QC had one that covers ADU, Synthlab, and
other features that you could order after you bought the general one).