This document provides important information about Drive Setup 1.5.
Drive Setup installs software (called a disk driver) that allows your computer to communicate with the hard disk. Use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your disk driver or to reinitialize a disk. When you initialize a disk, all of its contents are erased. A version history is at the end of this document.
IMPORTANT Earlier versions of Drive Setup can reintroduce issues resolved with Drive Setup 1.5
When to use Drive Setup 1.5
• Immediately after you set up your computer for the first time.
• Any time you install Mac OS versions 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.0 or 8.1 on your computer, you should use Drive Setup 1.5 to update the driver on your hard disk again. If you are using a version of Mac OS prior to 7.6, it is not necessary to use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your hard disk drive. Note that Drive Setup 1.5 was tested with and is supported with System 7.1.2 through Mac OS 8.1.
At Ease and Drive Setup 1.5
If you are using At Ease 4.0, 4.0.1, or 5.0, and wish to update your hard disk driver using Drive Setup 1.5, please follow these steps before using Drive Setup 1.5. (If you are using At Ease 3.0 or earlier, these steps are not applicable.):
• Launch the At Ease Administration program.
• From the Security menu, choose System Settings.
• Make sure that the option "Prevent users from bypassing security by starting up from a floppy disk." is not selected.
Using Drive Setup 1.5 to Update a Hard Disk
This section describes how to use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your hard disk. You may have Drive Setup 1.5 on a CD or you may have downloaded Drive Setup 1.5 from an Apple Web site.
To use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your hard disk, follow these steps:
1. Back up your hard disk and turn off any hard disk security software. Using Drive Setup to update a hard disk driver with security software turned on may cause problems.
IMPORTANT Apple strongly recommends that you make a copy of the information on your hard disk before you update the disk using Drive Setup.
2. Insert your system software CD in the CD-ROM drive and restart your computer using the CD.
To learn how to start up your computer using a system CD, see the user’s manual that came with your computer.
3. Locate Disk First Aid on the CD and open the program.
4. Select your hard disk and click Repair.
Disk First Aid checks your hard disk and repairs problems it finds. For more information about Disk First Aid, see the user’s manual that came with your computer.
5. When you’re finished, quit Disk First Aid and restart your computer.
6. When your computer restarts, eject the system CD and use Drive Setup 1.5 as follows.
7. Open Drive Setup 1.5.
WARNING When Drive Setup opens, do not click Initialize. Doing so erases all the information on your hard disk.
8. Select your hard disk in the List of Drives list.
9. Choose Update Driver from the Functions menu.
IMPORTANT If Update Driver is not available, your hard disk may be protected by security software. See the manual that came with the software to learn how to turn off security while you update the disk.
10. Click OK when a message appears telling you that you must restart your computer.
11. Quit Drive Setup when you see the message, “Driver update was successful.”
12. In the Finder, choose Restart from the Special menu.
If you have problems or Drive Setup fails to update the disk, see the troubleshooting chapter in the user’s manual that came with your computer.
IMPORTANT If your computer has one or more previous versions of Drive Setup on the hard disk, Apple recommends that you replace these older version(s) of Drive Setup with version 1.5 of Drive Setup.
Recovering From Disk Problems
If, when you start up your computer using a system software CD, you see a message asking you to initialize your hard disk, do not click Initialize. It may be possible to recover the hard disk using Disk First Aid or another disk utility. To learn how to use Disk First Aid, see the troubleshooting chapter in the user’s manual that came with your computer. If you are using another disk utility, see the manual that came with the software.
Initializing Your Hard Disk
If you need to initialize your hard disk, see the user’s manual that came with your computer or the system software CD you are using to learn how to do so. When you are finished initializing and installing system software on your hard disk, use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your hard disk. See “Using Drive Setup 1.5 to Update a Hard Disk” earlier in this document.
Tips and Troubleshooting
• Update Driver command is dimmed
If the Update Driver command is dimmed, the desired disk is either not supported, or it's previously been updated with a non-Apple utility. If the disk isn't supported, check the instructions that came with your computer or disk to see if the manufacturer includes or recommends a disk utility, and use that utility to update the driver. If you have updated or formatted the disk with a non-Apple utility, you will need to use that utility again to perform the update. To ensure a successful update, obtain the latest version of the utility.
• Using Drive Setup with Energy Saver
Before you use Drive Setup to perform an extended operation, such as testing the disk, open the Energy Saver control panel and select Never for the Hard Disk Sleep option to prevent the hard disk from spinning down before Drive Setup is finished.
• Manually mounting volumes
Drive Setup allows you to partition a hard disk into several volumes when you initialize the disk. You can also select whether or not to mount a volume automatically when you start up your computer by using the “Automount on startup” option. Beginning with Drive Setup 1.3, a more reliable method of mounting volumes automatically is being used, to ensure correct operation with virtual memory. You cannot use a disk utility program (for example, SCSI Probe version 4.3) to mount volumes manually if the program does not support the new way volumes are mounted. However, you can use Drive Setup to mount volumes manually.
• Reinstalling Additional Software
Some computers come with additional software installed. If you want to reinstall this additional software using the “restore” CD that came with your computer, quit Drive Setup before you reinstall the software. Icons will not appear on the desktop if Drive Setup is open when you reinstall the software.
• Waiting for initialization to complete
Sometimes Drive Setup indicates that it has finished initializing a disk when it has not completely finished. Wait for your new volumes to appear in the Finder before continuing.
Improvements to Drive Setup (version history)
• Version 1.5—Added support for Power Macintosh G3 computers. Fixes a bug where the write cache on some ATA drives was disabled following a restart.
• Version 1.4—Added support for Mac OS Extended format for Mac OS 8.1. Supports all Macintosh computers that are supported by Mac OS 8.1 as well as all computers supported by Drive Setup version 1.3.x.
• Version 1.3.1—Fixed a problem on ATA drives that in rare cases could cause the loss of files/hard drive after a shutdown with Mac OS 7.6.1 and 8.0 systems.
• Version 1.3—Updated to work with all Macintosh computers that are supported by Mac OS 8. Incorporates Mac OS 8 appearance. Takes full advantage of the increased throughput of Ultra SCSI-2 Fast/Wide drives.
• Version 1.2.5—Limited release for Power Macintosh Workgroup Servers 7350 and 9650. NOT RECOMMENDED for other computers. Superseded by later versions.
• Version 1.2.4—Updated to access drives with SCSI IDs greater than 7 (SCSI-2 Fast/Wide). Added the ability to repair a disk that is damaged by updating with Drive Setup 1.2.2 after initializing with Apple HD SC Setup 7.1.2 or earlier.
IMPORTANT Apple HD SC Setup should only be used with older 68k-based Mac OS computers.
• Version 1.2.3—Fixed a problem in which large reads and writes on the hard disks of Performa 6400 series computers could cause hangs. Added the ability to update from Apple HD SC Setup drivers.
• Version 1.2.2—Improved recognition of secured volumes. Made minor changes for compatibility with the Mac OS 7.6 Installer.
• Version 1.2.1—Limited release for a few Power Macintosh computers sold in some European markets. NOT RECOMMENDED for other computers. Superseded by later versions.
• Version 1.2—Includes SCSI MESH patch for PCI Power Macintosh computers. Added support for selected 68k-based Mac OS computers with internal ATA hard drives.
