Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!hammen From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Jasmine disk followup Message-ID: <3539@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 12:36:31 EST Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.3539 Posted: Wed Nov 18 12:36:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 06:31:41 EST References: <31052@sun.uucp> <1371@cup.portal.com> <1125@basser.oz> <2912@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP Reply-To: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Robert Hammen) Organization: Computer Applications, Inc. Lines: 28 In article <2912@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: >Okay, does someone want to tell me what's going on here? *Why* would you want >to use _Apple's_ formatter program on your non-Apple drive? Don't Jasmine >and DCC drives come with their own manager programs? Or are Jasmine's and >DCC's drivers so buggy that they're unusable :-) One of the advantages of formatting your Jasmine drive with Apple's old HD SC Setup 1.1 was that your drive was Mac II-compatible before Jasmine got their SCSI driver ready (I still don't have the Mac II-compatible one, though it is out). Another reason to try to format a drive with Apple or other SCSI software is to examine performance. I have formatted a Jasmine 80 with Jasmine's software, Apple's HD SC Setup 1.1, and CMS' SCSI Utility 3.2F. I don't have the numbers handy, but the DiskTimer II results were the best with the Jasmine driver). Yet another reason is if you are having problems with your drive - I was experiencing some strange crashes with the drive, and the usual replacing System file/reformat juggling never solved the problem. I tested the drive with all three SCSI drivers to determine if the problem was in any way related to the SCSI drive (which it was not - I never did find out the solution to my problem, but it has stopped happening). >Christopher Chow ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications, Inc. hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104