Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!phs172m From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Determining whether a drive has "auto park" Message-ID: <42237.26da2eaf@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 27 Aug 90 22:43:26 GMT References: <9008241522.AA21243@apple.com> <4555UD182050@NDSUVM1> Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia Lines: 32 In article <4555UD182050@NDSUVM1>, UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes: > In article <9008241522.AA21243@apple.com>, STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) says: >> >>On Thu, 23 Aug 90 08:35:40 EST Stan Planton said: >>>Most "manufacturers" are really assemblers, using other people's drives. One >>>approach is to take the housing apart, note the model and serial number from >>>the stickers on the drive itself. >> >> There is software which also gives the manufacturer and model number. >>I'm not certain whether it's Apple's hard disk utility or one of the >>public domain disk formatters, but I remember seeing the name and model >>of my hard drive displayed on my screen when I was setting it up. >> > > Yeah, the Chinook Utilties will tell you exactly what your drive is. > > ------- > Mike > This reminds me that a friend asked me to find out whether the Chinook Utilities have been updated to cope with the DMA SCSI card as yet? He was told earlier this year that this was under way, but has not heard as yet. Apparently the utilities are one of the best for SCSI on the Apple 2. On the note of software, I see in a recent TeXHaX that Albert Chin is getting somewhere with porting TeX to the GS. This is good to see, I remember a few posts along that line last year. Guess that the C compiler problems have caused a delay. Now that ORCA/C 1.1 is out maybe it will work out (I hope, I would love to have TeX on the GS). -- Stephen Harker Monash University