7 Aug
1998
7 Aug
'98
3:01 p.m.
I got the SE to go. Now, I need to get the SCSI
harddisk I have
to work for it. It has a (limited) version of System 6.0.8, and I have
a 200 meg SCSI external I plan on using.
How do I get the Mac to initialize the SCSI disk? (I can worry about
System 7 later...)
This is a problem. I'm assuming that the 200Mb HD is not out of a Mac, and
as such does not have the Mac Firmware. If this is the case, your cheapest
alternative is to get a Hard Drive that does. You can get software that
will let you work with non-Macified HD's, but it's not worth it in this
case (i.e. the software costs more than a used HD would).
You can get System 7.0.1 off of one of the Apple FTP sites.
Also, it has an 800k disk... Is there any way to cheat
and make a PC produce
these? Or will the Mac take 720k disks too?
(I can make a Mac-formatted 720k disk with hfstools... But I can't format
the SCSI disk with it - no SCSI controller in the PC.)
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I've heard of software that will let you do this, but haven't tried any of
it. I have used 720k floppies in a Mac, but they were formatted on an
Amiga, using a Macintosh emulator (I was really surprised they worked).
Is 'hfstools' a Linux package? I seem to remember hearing of something
like that for Linux. Even if you could format the SCSI HD with it, I don't
think it would work, as you need certain software partitions on the Hard
Drive.
Zane
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