Re: Formatting Hard Drive for Apple ][ GS

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Dan Yertzell (Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: On 20 Oct 1997 00:46:20 GMT, user280417@aol.com (User280417) wrote:
: 
: >I am thinking about installing a hard drive on my GS, Is there a utility to
: > format a SCSI hard drive for Apple GS?  The hard drive has no software.
: > 
: >Micky
: 
: Any SCSI controller you get for a //gs will include formatting
: software, either built-in on a ROM, or on a disk.
: 
: CMS controllers are pretty cheap and work fine, the RamFast SCSI is
: much more expensive but faster.
: 
: Dan

If you have enough memory in your GS to run System 6, it includes a
program called ADU (Advanced Disk Utilities) that will do a nice job. If
you don't have that much, then go to http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu and
sniff around for an 8-bit ProDOS program that is probably listed as
CSU1.5. That is the Chinook SCSI Utilities, and is the slickest 8-bit
software for Formatting, Partitioning, etc. that I've seen. There was
another one that was called Vanilla, I believe, but wasn't so nice, and
was shareware rather than free.

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