jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) (05/25/90)
I heard a nasty rumor that A/UX 2.0 won't work unless the disk it's being installed on is formatted using Apple HD Setup.... Is this true? What disks does HD Setup recognize then?? I have a CMS Platinum 170 (which is CDC-Imprimis based) sooooooo will I be able to format this using HD Setup? Are there any other disk-formatter software packages that could do the job? (LaCie SilverLining, for example...)
chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you) (05/25/90)
jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes: >I heard a nasty rumor that A/UX 2.0 won't work unless the disk it's being >installed on is formatted using Apple HD Setup.... Is this true? Not true -- 2.0 has been installed on disks formatted with SilverLining with no trouble. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] It isn't easy being green. -- Kermit
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) (05/29/90)
>jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes: >>I heard a nasty rumor that A/UX 2.0 won't work unless the disk it's being >>installed on is formatted using Apple HD Setup.... Is this true? There may be some problems with other disk formatter utilities: I have had (am having) trouble with Storware which doesn't know about A/UX at all. I am also nearly finished with writing a Partition Map fixup program which puts in those little extras like partition map entry signatures which A/UX demands but MacOS doesn't! These problems are mostly trivia: the A/UX dp utility handles a lot of them (and runs from Sash so you don't need A/UX to install A/UX) but having no partition map signatures was something I ended up using adb to fix. My request to Apple's DTS for a TechNote on who cares about what in disk partition maps was rejected ("If people want to support A/UX then they should read the A/UX documentation"). Has HD Setup been revised to put in the A/UX 2.0 preferred slice numbers? Remember that at beta10, A/UX 2.0 couldn't handle multiple MacOS partitions on the same drive - has that been fixed yet? -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)