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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre and hard disks
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.091311.16932@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 90 09:13:11 GMT
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In article <39964@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> emerson@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Emerson Mei) writes:
 >still can't get a hard drive partitioned so that it will 
 >work on spectre and the Mac. I now realize that it must be done using a MFS
 >formatted drive and there can be no atari data on the drive.  Still Spectre
 >will not format MFS except on partitions <4.5 megs. and these partitions are
 >not recoginzed by a macintosh. I think it may be the paritioning software. I
 >use ICD's recent version. Has anyone out there done this and could they
 >Pleeeze give me some tips. 
 >
 > Please reply to emerson@stat.berkeley.edu

You have to use either the "Supra Formatter" (as Dave Small points out in one
of the Spectre newsletters) or the "CMS Formatter", which is what I used. You
also MUST format on the Mac, since no mac SCSI software works with Spectre, 
it can't seem to see any SCSI devices.  I used the CMS software to format a
SyQuest cartridge for Mac & Spectre usage.  As you said, you can't have an
Atari partition, although the Mac OS does allow for multiple partitions on
a drive.  Hopefully, Spectre 3.0 will support a wider range of Mac formatted
drives. I'd love to have a cartridge with an ST partition on it that 
autoboots and still have a Mac readable partition.  Since formatting the 
cartridge and putting a bunch of stuff on it, the volume crashed, although
Spectre still displays it under the hard disk menu. Of course, I hadn't backed
up anything on it yet (if I had, it wouldn't have crashed). I haven't had a 
chance to try and restore the volume yet.

---jb