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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: non-apple disks
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Date: 6 Jun 91 23:31:39 GMT
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	I have been puzzled by the recent discussion about using non-Apple
disks with AUX.  I am planning on purchasing a 210 Mbyte Quantum disk
that will be dedicated to AUX 2.01.  The latter will be purchased on CD-ROM.
The question: do I need to purchase Silverlining, or something like it?
The new disk will have nothing but AUX on it (or perhaps a little MacOS
to boot from?).  Will I be able to run the AUX partitioning utilities
without installing AUX so that I can run from the new non-Apple disk?

	Contrary to several comments about non-Apple disks, many unix
manufacturers make it easy both to format and partition third-party disks.
It is my understanding that "formatting" a SCSI-disk is very standard, 
and usually unnecessary. It seems to be very simple to modify HD-Setup to
"recognize" non-Apple disks (after a quick look with SCSI-probe). Once
the disk is recognized, will HD-Setup do whatever necessary, or are there
additional tables in HD-Setup (in addition to the vendor's product name)
that must be changed?

Bill Pearson