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From: mike@artsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Writing your own installer for home built SCSI disks
Message-ID: <183@artsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 16:12:14 EST
Article-I.D.: artsvax.183
Posted: Thu Nov  5 16:12:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 09:21:28 EST
References: <181@artsvax.UUCP> <4256@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger)
Organization: OSU College of the Arts Computer Lab
Lines: 27
Keywords: scsi adaptec problems

In article <4256@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> borton@net1.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:
>In article <181@artsvax.UUCP> mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger) writes:
>>As for the driver that needs to be written on the disk, I've read the
>>developer info, and it seems to indicate that the driver is kept in
>>a resource with a non-standard name, to be decided by the vendor.  If
>>this is the case, why can't I just copy the driver using ResEdit into
>>my program?
>
>The driver also needs to be on the first two blocks of the hard disk, which
>are inaccessible by normal programs (even Fedit).
>
The driver isn't on the first two blocks, they contain header information.
They can be accessed through the SCSI manager, which I have already managed
to do.  They question was whether I can just copy a driver from another
formatter/init program.  Fortunately, I managed to figure it out myself.
I think the driver needs to be somewhat customized, so as long as the
driver is for the same type of disk, everything should be all right.  I've
got ahold of the Developers SCSI example driver, and am working on it.


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