Macintosh SE questions.

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Fri Aug 7 19:23:51 1998

On 7 Aug 98 at 19:01, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> >I got the SE to go. Now, I need to get the SCSI harddisk I have
> >to work for it. It has a (limited) version of System 6.0.8, and I have
> >a 200 meg SCSI external I plan on using.
> >How do I get the Mac to initialize the SCSI disk? (I can worry about
> >System 7 later...)
>
> This is a problem. I'm assuming that the 200Mb HD is not out of a Mac, and
> as such does not have the Mac Firmware. If this is the case, your cheapest
> alternative is to get a Hard Drive that does. You can get software that
> will let you work with non-Macified HD's, but it's not worth it in this
> case (i.e. the software costs more than a used HD would).

 All non-Mac HDDs have this problem. Apple wanted to monopolize
their market. It's been a while since I struggled with my Mac+ but
there are several programs IIRC that you can use to format your HDD
so the Mac will accept it. I'm not sure but check out the Silverlining page
they have a free or shareware Lite program. There is likely something as
well in the classicmac archives http://www.zws.com/classicmacs/
 
> You can get System 7.0.1 off of one of the Apple FTP sites.
>
 There's some debate that 6.0.8 is faster on the earlier Macs than System 7.

> >Also, it has an 800k disk... Is there any way to cheat and make a PC produce
> >these? Or will the Mac take 720k disks too?
> >(I can make a Mac-formatted 720k disk with hfstools... But I can't format
> >the SCSI disk with it - no SCSI controller in the PC.)
> >-------
>
 Just format the ddds disks on the Mac. DOS adds stuff which brings it down
to 720k . I've also heard you can format them on the Atari ST (10 sectors vs
9 on DOS ? ) but I've never tried it yet.

> I've heard of software that will let you do this, but haven't tried any of
> it. I have used 720k floppies in a Mac, but they were formatted on an
> Amiga, using a Macintosh emulator (I was really surprised they worked).
>
> Is 'hfstools' a Linux package? I seem to remember hearing of something
> like that for Linux. Even if you could format the SCSI HD with it, I don't
> think it would work, as you need certain software partitions on the Hard
> Drive.
>
> Zane
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