km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) (05/03/90)
>The stnadard method I use to get AUX on non apple hd's is to use >silver lining to do a low level format, and then to use HD Setup >to partition it. You can use resedit to modify HD Setup so it >will recognise any drive. HD Setup has trouble formatting some >drives so leave it to something else. > >open code seg "%A5 INIT" and look for drive names. Since these >are pascal strings, there is a length byte in front of each drive >name. I usualy make the byte 1 and change the first letter to match >the drive I have but I am told that makeing it a 0 will make it work >with any drive. As follow up to my original posting, I now have the Newbury 4830S working under A/UX. I already had modified HD Setup as suggested above to recognize the Newbury, but the problem was the excessive time the Newbury takes on bus reset, which makes HD Setup abort on the initialization. The cure was brute force: I used "dd" to raw copy the partition entries and MacOS driver to the Newbury drive. HD Setup then saw a drive which did not need to be initialized, so it allowed partitioning without trying to initialize the drive, which avoided the abort. Ken Mitchum km@cs.pitt.edu
vanover@bcsaic.UUCP (Jann VanOver) (05/05/90)
In article <6452@umd5.umd.edu> steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes: > >The stnadard method I use to get AUX on non apple hd's is to use >silver lining to do a low level format, and then to use HD Setup >to partition it. ... > >steveg@umd5.umd.edu Thanks - I'm having the same problem with my DataCell. AUGH how frustrating to wait for A/UX for months (my company's purchasing hassles) and now to have it sitting on my desk and can't use it! For others who need to know: Silverlining $99.95 From: LaCie, 19552 SW 90th, Tualatin, OR, 97062. (800) 999-0143