Re: SCSI - RELAX vs others

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <25r0ru$acv@dorsai.dorsai.org>, cara@dorsai.dorsai.org (Cara A. Bissell) writes:
|> Summary:  My Relax 20 megabyte hard drive recently went on my //GS.  I've put
|> in a request for a MSDOS 200 megabyte hard drive which will be utilizing the
|> unix system.  A guru friend of mine will be setting it up for me.  I was
|> wondereing, just to help me be more knowledgeable when he does it, 
|> 
|> will the exisiting scsi card in the GS be the one to control the new 200 meg
|> hard drive?  Will using the low level Apple software ( that I used with the
|> RELAX hard drive and did not come with the relax hard drive ) be what I can
|> use with this new hard drive??

A MSDOS hard drive ... utilizing the unix system? What's that?
As long as the hard drive is an SCSI HD your SCSI card will be able to control it.
However, the HD has to be a) partitioned and b) formatted, so all data on it is 
lost. Regardless under what file systems it was used (MSDOS, Unix), the only
file systems that can be used on a IIGS are ProDOS and HFS.  
You should be able to do the partitioning/formatting with the same software that
you used with the 20MB HD.

|> 
|> Thanks for your response ahead of time whoever, whereever you are!
|> 
|> :)  Cara Bissell
|>     The Dorsai Embassy
|>     New York City
|> 

Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)