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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!David.Empson
- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: HFS formatting, ...
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:02:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.090223.16828@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <jmk3.722300251@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
- Sender: David.Empson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
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- In article <jmk3.722300251@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) writes:
- > >Dave Empson, fooling ADU to get Mac driver on non-Apple disk
- > I've suggested (a few times) the method you just mentioned, but no one
- > has gotten back to me to say if it works. Do you have confirmation?
- > (I know -- it definitely _should_ work.)
- > What I did was Derez ADU, get the driver, and Rez just that. It was a
- > few months later that I thought of just using the ADU file itself
- > (duh!). And you're right, the not-so-generic (not meant to be) driver
- > does not recognize cart exchanges.
-
- The ADU driver trick is supposed to be used with a third-party driver
- in the GenericMacSCSI file. My local user group came across one
- driver that supported SyQuests and also seemed to work with most other
- SCSI drives, but I forget its name.
- The driver included in ADU is only guaranteed to work with
- Apple-branded SCSI drives. It may or may not work with other drives.
-
- > re: Mac formatted drive not working on IIGS
- > You say formatting on the Mac _should_ be fine, and I agree, but it
- > isn't. When I formatted a Syquest cart on a Mac, Finder saw something
- > like 40 unrecognizable devices and ADU was so confused it wouldn't even
- > re-format, zero, initialize or anything. [etc.]
-
- It sounds like the Mac driver created a large number of 'spare'
- entries in the partition map, possibly with some invalid data that
- caused the IIgs SCSI drivers to get very confused.
-
- I would be interested to know what the 8-bit program "Chinook SCSI
- Utilities" thought of the drive.
- --
- David Empson
-
- Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
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