Re: SCSI Utilities for Apple Rev. A?

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message 
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>> Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Anyone know of any utilities that can be used to partition and format 
>>> drives
>>> attatched to an Apple II SCSI Card Rev. A?
>>
>> Probably only the software which came with the card. The application you
>> need is called something obvious like SCSIPARTITION. It is similar to
>> the HDSCPARTITION software included with the high-speed SCSI card.
>>

So far I've only tried the obvious archives, the ones with "SCSI" in the 
filename. Can anybody suggest SCSI software that is perhaps listed by 
another name? For example, unless I knew better I would never think 
Chinook.sdk would be SCSI utilities.

-Greg

> That's what I figured my only option is. After digging around online, I 
> can't seem to find a copy of the disk that came with the card.
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>> The software only supports creating two partitions.
>>
>>> The card is sitting in a platinum IIe now. I tried using the utilities
>>> from Apple's website, but they are only for the high-speed card. I tried
>>> Chinook, but it says it can't find a revision C card, which is true, I
>>> have a revision A card. Anyone have the disks that originally came with
>>> the card?
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>> Another option is to upgrade the firmware on the card, if you can
>> arrange to burn an EPROM (a 27128 is required; I can give you a copy of
>> the firmware image).  That will bring you up to revision C, which will
>> fix some rather serious bugs, add functionality and let you use much
>> better software like Chinook SCSI Utilities.
>>
> Yeah, it's one of those things I've been meaning to do but never got 
> around to. Come to think of it there's a lot of those... ;-)
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> -Greg
>> -- 
>> David Empson
>> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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