From: scOtty Technoir (tick0001_at_algonquincollege.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 03:48:18 PDT
hmm food for thought! it has become a non-issue suddenly, as the Mac got
sold last night! Doh! so the question i have now is: do beige G3s support
internal SCSI or only IDE? i would like to have the scsi disk [with
appropriate driver] working alongside the stock IDE disk if possible...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin
...
> > 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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