km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) (11/01/88)
I am looking for information for configuring SF&I for the Seagate ST277N drive. While I have the ANSI documentation, and basic specs on the drive, I am interested in whatever formatting and bad-sector mapping options there are for the drive, or for Seagate SCSI drives in general. I have called Seagate twice, but they state the documentation is at the printers. Ken Mitchum Decision Systems Labs University of Pittsburgh
rick@kimbal.UUCP (Rick Kimball) (11/04/88)
From article <1671@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, by km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum): > I am looking for information for configuring SF&I for the Seagate ST277N > drive. While I have the ANSI documentation, and basic specs on the drive, I was under the impression that the standard Apple Hard Disk format program works with any 'N' series Seagate drive. If that isn't true does anyone know what SCSI drives will work with the Apple format program? -- Rick Kimball Software Design Group, Inc. Manager, Software Development 800 Trafalgar Ct. Suite 340 UUCP:rick@kimbal ..!ucf-cs!sdgsun!kimbal!rick Maitland, FL 32751 CIS: 72277,214 W(407)660-0006/ H(407)788-6875
sam@gtisqr.UUCP (Sam Felton) (11/11/88)
Our system was "off-net" for about two weeks. Now I see everyone referring to "SF&I", which I assume means something like SCSI Formatter & Initializer. What I want to know is, where do you get this? If it is "nettable", could someone re-post it? I don't have access to SUMEX or the other archives, unfortunately :-<. I bought a Seagate ST-157N bare drive, made cables, and wrote the initializer/ formatter myself, using a driver modified from the SCSI driver supplied as an example by APDA. This took me A LONG TIME, although I did it the hard way (I used the old Consulair assembler, since it was the only thing that would fit on an 800K drive with system and Macsbug). I know, I know -- call me a masochist. But I learned LOTS about the SCSI manager and the Mac II hardware this way, not to mention the ST-157N itself. I am now looking to purchase another drive, which I had intended to be another ST-157N since I had one running already... but if this SF&I does what it sounds like it does, I could get something better (i.e., larger and faster), like a Quantum or Fujitsu or something, and use this to format/initialize it. Thanks for putting up with my (obviously uninformed) ravings. ---Sam DISCLAIMER: Please, don't try this at home -- we're trained professionals.