Re: [NTLK] [OT] [att: Mac Gurus (ie Not Ed K)] Mac HD info

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 00:10:31 PDT


on 11/09/02 02:49, Robert Benschop at rbenschop_at_euronet.nl wrote:

> on 11-09-2002 5:16, scOtty Technoir at tick0001_at_algonquincollege.com wrote:
>
>> thanks Woody et al. i think i realize the situation now. it would be easier
>> if this drive had a jumper cap!! thanks to all again!
>
> Don't think that that has anything to do with it, since your Mac can see the
> disk.
> As Woody already wrote, you probably have a drive that's not supported by
> Apple's (they supported only a few drives in those days) and you need
> another formatting utility/disk driver like FWB's hard disk toolkit.

I had a special version of the Apple HDSC Setup that was basically accepting
any drive. I think it was part of A/UX. Back then, it is true that the
regular version was checking for some Apple firmware on the drive and would
not allow to format it if it didn't have it.

-Laurent.

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