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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
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Subject: Re: Can Apple HD SC Setup be hacked?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 20:00:05 GMT
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In article <0D010010.serk0f@brain.UUCP> chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton)
writes:

>I'm not sure if this technique still works with the new HD Setup program,
>but the following USED to work. First, you have to find out the complete
device
>ID using something like SCSI Tools. The ID will look something like:
>
>Quantuum P105S 910-10-99X
>
>There are several strings in the HD Setup program that represent the "legal"
>drives that the program will attempt to format. Using your favorite disk or
>resource editor, substitute your ID for one of the Apple-supplied ones that
>most closely matches the size of your drive.
>
>I was able to do this about 2 years ago to get HD Setup to format a 3rd party
>80 meg Quantuum. I can't promise that the technique still works. You might
>want to consider getting a copy of SilverLining...

This still worked for me to format an 80M Seagate based drive from Hard Drives
International with the latest version of Apple HD SC setup.  The strings are in
the last code resource (%A5Init).  Use the strings further toward the bottom of
the resource, as the ones at the beginning seem to also look for a string
containing "Apple Computer".

Note that I have not tried to do an update on a disk that was not originally
formatted with Apple HD SC Setup, but I formatted the Seagate drive months ago
with a hacked copy of Setup, and then hacked the System 7 version the same way
to to the update.  No problems, I can even run VM from it.
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