Macintosh SE questions. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Aug 1998

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 "Lawrence Walker" &lt;lwalker(a)mail.interlog.com&gt; wrote:
...
  All non-Mac HDDs have this problem. Apple wanted to
monopolize
their market. It's been a while since I struggled with my Mac+  but 
there are several programs IIRC that you can use to format your HDD
so the Mac will accept it. I'm not sure but check out the Silverlining page
they have a free or shareware Lite program. There is likely something as
well  in the classicmac archives       http://www.zws.com/classicmacs/ 
Here's something that I found on a web page:

Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 has a hidden switch to let you format ANY hard disk.
To enable it you must edit resource "wfwr", ID 67 and change $00 to $ff ! [Use
ResEdit to achieve this.]

It seems to work; at least, HD SC Setup no longer quits on my (emulated) Mac
with SCSI MO drive. Haven't got a blank disk to test it out fully though.

(Aside: Is the old pre-System 6 Mac OS software still on the Apple site?)

-- Mark