Re: Focus Drive //e woes

["Mark Percival" <mark.percival@a2central.com.remove-q6z-this>]

  To: wkatz
William Katz wrote:
>Let's say I get a new/refurbished 2 1/2" laptop hard drive for use with 
>the Focus Card (either the same 172mb ibm dha-2270 drive, or a similar 
>drive) and attach it to the Focus Card in slot 7 of my platinum //e.

If you're going to replace the drive then I'd recommend getting an
adapter for a Compact Flash card.  This is what I did for my //e.  It
cost me $1 + S&H for the adapter plus $5 + S&H for a 256MB CF card.  I
picked up all the parts on eBay.

The advantage to this is:

- your //e now runs silent, no hard drive noise.
- the CF card gives off very little heat.
  (I assume this means it draws less power)
- CF cards can be purchased new.
- (anybody thing of anything else?)

>Where would I get the Focus Format utility? : )

I bet Bill Garber has it on his web site.  If he doesn't he probably
could be talked into putting it up.

Be advised that the Focus Format utility requires a IIgs running GSOS.
Once your drive is partitioned then you can use it in a //e.

>Could I simply use one of the ProDOS utilities to partition and format the 
>drive?

No.

-- Mark
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