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From: gmw1@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gabe M Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Using a Wren with A/UX
Summary: I need BOTH on the drive
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Date: 18 Apr 89 18:32:24 GMT
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In article <8548@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>>Now I've been told that it's cake to modify the names of the supported drives
>>for HD SC Setup with a sector editor and get it to support a drive.  But I'm
>>still a little dubious to spend $1800 on a drive without knowing that it's
>>definitely partitionable.
>
>I'm with you.  I have done this to HD SC Setup, but in both instances the
>setup failed, even though HDSCC could find the drive.  The string you are
>modifying is compared against the return from an INQUIRY command.
>Unfortunately, this says nothing about the correct Mode Select command blocks,
>or Format command block.  It appears in HDSCC 2.0 that there are tables for
>these, also.  But I have not tried to go any further.
>
>If you can initialize the drive for a Mac, with any number of partitions, you
>can re-partition under A/UX.  It's just the initial formatting that gets you.
>(unless you want a Mac partition on the drive, too -- if this is a secondary
>drive you may not...)


Yup, that's it. I need BOTH the A/UX and MacOS on the drive.  I know this can
be done from HD SC Setup if it'll recognize the drive.  It's really too bad
that Apple intentionally crippled the program.

It could also be done using "dp" from the A/UX stand-alone shell, and that
actually might be the best way to do it.  However, in this case, since NO ONE
seems to be able to tell me for sure how to do it, I'm going to buy a
MiniScribe drive if only for the reason that it has a 30 day no-questions-asked
money back guarantee.  Besides, Apple gets some of their drives from them so
they can't be all that bad :-)


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