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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: hard drives
Message-ID: <880227044308.366387@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Date: 27 Feb 88 04:43:00 GMT
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I recently installed an Everex 40Meg drive on my GS; it is mostly sold
to the Macintosh market but has a SCSI interface so it plugs right into
an Apple SCSI card.  In a sense it had to be formatted by "foreign
software" -- if it's formatted by any of the ProDOS utilities I have
(System Utilities, Finder, Copy II+, possibly something else) you can
only use a small part of it -- 8 Meg, I seem to remember (40-32 is the
clue).  So what you do is have it be formatted on a Macintosh (gets you
32Meg) at the dealer and very carefully carry it home.

Everex has promised the dealer the right kind of software (i.e., under
ProDos) that will format the whole thing (into two 20M volumes) provide
backup etc.  (Its been a month or so, so its time to bug them again...)

p.s., it works fine, no errors, is quiet, and is fast.