From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 06:31:44 PDT
on 11/09/02 06:48, scOtty Technoir at tick0001_at_algonquincollege.com wrote:
> 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.
>> --
Check Apple Specs database
<http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html>.
-Laurent.
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