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From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Anybody got SF&I for Adaptec 4000A/4070?
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Date: 4 Mar 89 22:22:06 GMT
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
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I have been struggling with what I think is generic SF&I (Ephriam Vishniac's)
to try and format my Priam drive attached to an Adaptec 4000A or 4070
SCSI-to-ST506 controller.  I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.  I read a
while back that there was a version of SF&I tailored for the Adaptec family,
and I hope some kind reader can e-mail it to me or point me to a source.
(NOTE: The version on SUMEX is the same as the one I already have.)

Barring that, perhaps someone can elucidate the changes one needs to make
to the SF&I resources using ResEdit that is clearer than the doc I have.
I *think* the only changes necessary (to the "Vanilla Resources") are to
specify the drive size (in sectors) and partition size (=drive size - 8?).
Beyond that, I'm stumped.  In the IBM disk world, one would need to tell
the formatter about # of heads and cylinders--I don't know if this is
calculated by SF&I somehow from the drive size.  Frankly, I don't see how
it could.

Sigh.....I hope someone can help!  :(

Thanks in advance.

marc

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