10 Jan
2001
10 Jan
'01
8:54 a.m.
Non-Apple drives work quite well with Macs; however,
while your
observation about the use of Apple's HD SC Utility is correct,
all non-Apple SCSI drives sold *FOR* the Mac come with their
own SCSI setup utility.
For a SCSI drive *NOT* sold _for_ a Mac, you'd need a third-party
toolkit like FWB' Hard Disk Tools (or whatever it's called). I've
used it to add IBM and DEC SCSI drives to a Mac.
You can also use a version of HDSC Setup which has been ResEdit-hacked to
disable the Apple branding restriction. I have it myself, but a far better
collection is this one:
http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/superbooter2.html
Although it boots on 68K only, it contains both stock and patched HDSC
7.3.5, Disk First Aid 7.2.2, and an .sea of MicroNet Utility 7.2.7 (unpack it
to a RAM disk, included with the AppDisk 1.6.1 app on the disk) for those
absolutely stubborn drives that can't be formatted or repartitioned with the
other tools. It's now my hard disk toolkit of choice. Use it by itself, or
steal the tools on it for your own personal Disk Tools.
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