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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Drives
Message-ID: <3160@phri.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:44:28 GMT
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nfong@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Fong) writes:
> 3rd party scsi drives need custom formatters

	I don't know about that.  I recently bought a Mac-Plus w/ Rodime-20
drive and Radius accelerator board (and Full Page Display).  Radius tech
support warned me that there was something strange about the way Rodime
formats their disks which makes them unusable with the accelerator (some
timing snafu having to do with interleave; I confess I didn't quite
understand the problem) and they suggested that I reformat the disk with
Apple's standard SCSI formatter.  I did so, and have been running fine for
the past month or so.

	So, there is at least one example of a thrid party disk which does
not need a custom formatter.  Disproof by counterexample.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016