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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup won't recognize my 3rd-party hard drive?
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Date: 20 May 91 15:44:25 GMT
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In article <9668@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian
Kendig) writes:
>I have a Tulin 50Mb hard drive with an Adaptec ACB4000A controller
>board, and one thing I noticed but was never able to figure out was
>why the Apple HD SC Setup program never could see it -- whenever I ran
>the program, it told me something like `no suitable devices found
>connected to the SCSI port.'  I figured this was because the hard
>drive's driver was incompatible.

Apple's program has a hard coded list of drives it will format built into the
program.  I have gone into it with ResEdit on several occasions to add drive
names.  Of course, just adding the drive name doesn't necessarily ensure it is
going to work...

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