moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/15/86)
Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage.
Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say
20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 512K Mac+ with the SCSI port
on the back. Let's also say you have Mac Finder 5.N and Resedit. How
tough do you think it will be to initialize the hard disk with the Apple
HFS? I'm assuming one of two extremes:
1) EASY (relatively). You alter a driver table someplace in the system
file with ResEdit to the hard disk's capacity, and then use Finder 5.N's
new initialize disk option. Voila! OK, maybe somewhat rose-tinted...
2) TOUGHER. You need to write and compile a driver, install it in the
System file with ResEdit, and then initialize the disk. Maybe not so
tough if someone writes a generic driver where you need only change a
few constants to get it to work for your machine.
My naievete knows no bounds, so I'm asking people out there with more smarts
in this area for guesses/answers/hints.
"Strong men blench! Women scream! Children vomit!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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