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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SCSI Interleave and Transportability
Keywords: SCSI, hard disk
Message-ID: <349@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 89 16:18:25 GMT
References: <1142@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <1142@ur-cc.UUCP> syap@vera.cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam) writes:
>At home I use a Mac Plus with a MacConnection 20Meg drive manufactured by
>Rodime.  A few days ago I wanted to use the drive and its data at work for
>a demonstration we were giving, on a standard Mac II.  The dreaded "Disk
>Unreadable -- Initialize?" dialog appeared, with the correct icon for my
>drive.  As far as I can tell from the manuals for the drive, the installer

Don't blame your interleave.  I run my Cirrus drive on both my Plus
and a IIx.  The drive is formatted for the Plus's best performance, I
figure it needs as much help as possible.

Try to get newer formatting software, or the shareware (pay-with-your-
blood) driver that Vishniac (sp?) wrote, or one of the commercial
packages (like the SilverLining the comes with Cirrus drives).

Do worry about other software incompatibilities.  Booting off a disk
which has Autoblack installed will give a II coniptions, for example.
If you run with a zillion INITs you must consider a zillion things
which can go wrong (I do, I have).


If you persist you will be able to get this to work--but first: 

	Backup Your Disk.  

You are heading into dangerious waters about now.


Kent Borg
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