Hard Drive Formatting and Recovery

[mkelsey@eecs.wsu.edu]

Does anyone know whether an Apple II SCSI hard drive holds the same block format
as a Macintosh.  I know that the HFS floppies are all the same (with different
file systems) and that the older Mac's and II's could exchange printers, mice,
and UniDisk 3.5"'s, but, can a Macintosh format a SCSI hard drive for an Apple
II.  I have an AMR Fast SCSI adapter, but, I don't have the utility disk needed
for formatting.  The hard drive is producing some random errors, but, I don't
want to nuke the hard drive unless I know the Mac and Apple II use the same
track/sector/block format.

BTW, I managed to get the drive connected to a CENTRIS 660AV and the Centris
checked the presence quickly and then moved on toward the native hard drive. 
Earlier, the two hard drives had the same SCSI ID and I kept the external SCSI
shut off.  During the boot process I turned on the SCSI drive and the MAC started
reading sectors from that hard drive!!!  The hard drive didn't make the error
noises normally heard from variant formats, but, instead sounded like it was
reading the blocks!  Any clues?  Afterward I changed the ID's but Apple File
Exchanged refused to notice the presence of a ProDOS volume.

Help..help...help

E-mail is preferred.

Michael Kelsey
mkelsey@eecs.wsu.edu