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- From: weismand@limestone.kosone.com (Dwight W Weisman)
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00:07 -0400
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- > I've kind
- >of run into the problem lately of wishing it could format SyQuest
- >cartridges,
-
- The bad news is, the Mac OS, and the Hard Disk Formatters distributed with
- it won't do a SyQuest, you will need to get a third party formatter from
- SyQuest or elsewhere. There are many around. For ZIP and easySCSI users
- its simple, I assume that like Iomega, SyQuest will sell you a disk
- containing the appropriate drivers and utilities.
-
- >Of course, if this were possible, it would be absolutelu
- >vital for ARDI to rig a flag that would tell the OS *_NOT_* to format the
- >boot partition!
-
- As long as that's the same hard drive Executor is on, no problem
-
-
- >(Then again, the differences between SCSI and IDE may be the reason behind this
- >.)
-
- Last year Apple began using EIDE drives in some of its low end machines. I
- have an EIDE drive in my Quadra 630. That means you will get a formatter
- for your EIDE drives with MAC OS 7.5.3.
-
- > Another benefit (which admittedly would'nt matter in the post-MacOS
- >dropping stage) would be the possibility of multi-tasking. Right now, the
- >HFV file must be in the same directory as EXECUTOR.EXE, and since you
- >can't launch Executor twice from the same directory (since it won't let you
- >open the exsystem.hfv file twice) your HFV file is only accessible in one
- >instance, whereas a hard disk partition would be available from anywhere.
-
- There is even better news here (if ARDI can get the MAC OS to "drop in").
- It now appears that Apple will port MAC OS 8.x to be functional on 68040
- Macintoshes (Its being written native in RISC code for the PPCP). Not only
- will that resolve the but deal with the multitasking and memory problems.
-
- Cheerios,
- + weismand@limestone.kosone.com +
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