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- This is the source code to a SCSI HD formatter, sort of.
-
- Well, the story goes that I bought this old Seagate ST225N and it
- wouldn't format with the Apple HD Setup programs (even the hacked
- ones that were supposed to work with all manufacturer's drives).
-
- Some experimenting showed that the drive really was formatting fine,
- except for the LAST block on the disk, which was somehow write-
- protected (probably from the days when everyone had proprietary
- drivers, etc., and manufacturers hid secret id codes in places
- like the last block of the drive). This was a real pain, so
- I finally hit upon the solution of just copying the first 256
- blocks from my internal HD to the Seagate, effectively creating
- a working partitioned drive, which runs fine now (a little more
- tinkering was necessary, and the drive had to be erased by the
- Finder/MacOS before being used).
-
- There is a lot of junk in here, but it may be useful to someone
- else.....
-
- -Roy Wood (rrwood@io.org)
-