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Posted by: johnklos on 2008-12-03 00:17:58
While not strictly a Unix question, I'm curious about what free formatter people are using for SCSI drives on SE/30 type machines. My SE/30 can boot off of the Network Access floppy disk, and I can access tools over the network and do things with the internal hard drive (which is a modern IDE drive on a SCSI-IDE adapter), but when I try to boot from that drive, it doesn't happen. I tried Apple HD SC and Drive Setup, but I'm not sure what kind of SCSI driver the SE/30 requires.
Suggestions?
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Posted by: porter on 2008-12-03 00:42:23
In their wisdom Apple required people to use Apple disks with Apple tools. If you have a 3rd party disk you are on your own.
There are some ways of patching HD SC Setup.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2008-12-03 09:09:01
I happen to have disk images of Silverlining ( a disk formatter utility) which I can send to you if you want.
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Posted by: Charlieman on 2008-12-03 12:29:43
In their wisdom Apple required people to use Apple disks with Apple tools. Or perhaps Apple decided, for cost reasons, that they couldn't test their formatter against every unpredictable, non-standard SCSI drive on the market. Use Apple's formatter and Apple's disk and it will work. Use a third party disk and a third party formatter, and it may or may not work. If you experience problems, talk to the writer of the formatter. That makes sense to me.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-12-03 13:01:23
That makes sense to me. Their HD SC Setup for A/UX works with any standard SCSI drive.
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Posted by: Charlieman on 2008-12-03 13:16:43
Their HD SC Setup for A/UX works with any standard SCSI drive. Badly. It is hit and miss whether a drive supports "Blind Writes". SCSI Manager 4.3 support?
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