Re: WTB SCSI HD

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <199707232032.WAA24591@basement.replay.com>,
Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:

[snip]

>Randy, just a comment.  _Any_ SCSI drive can by formatted _on the GS_ by
>the Advanced Disk Utilities (ADU) to work on the Mac.  In the resource fork
>of ADU, there is Apple's official Mac SCSI HD driver.  ADU scans to make
>sure it finds a drive with an Apple ROM before putting the Mac driver on
>it.  However, someone wrote a program (forgot the name, something like
>SysEx) that extracts the ADU driver and saves it in the *:System:Drivers
>folder.  If this driver is in this folder, ADU will be able to install it
>in HFS partitions _even if the HD is not an Apple_!  Drives formatted in
>this way can be seen on the Mac.

Even if that's so, it's still a LOT easier to use a Mac if you have one handy.
There are patches to make Apple's HD SC setup use non Apple drives, but I only
have a patched version 7.3.5 on hand, which puts the APPLE_DRIVER43 driver
partition on the disk, and that causes the IIgs finder to gag. So I used a
non SCSI manager 4.3 savvy version of HD SC setup, not patched, to format and
partition my new IIgs hard disk. And like I say, I've seen ZERO file system
problems on my 200 mb HFS volume. That even includes when I copied the contents
of the 105 mb's HFS volume, 700 plus files, onto the new volume. I stuck the
drive on the Quadra and ran Norton Disk Doctor and it found no bad files.
On the other hand, people who use HFS volumes on drives formatted on IIgses 
have reported problems, as you're doubtless aware.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com