yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) (01/10/90)
I bought a Quantum 105MB drive from MacLand, and I'm not completely thrilled with the formatting software they send out with it (the software comes from a company called CRU). Does anyone know if it would work to patch HDSetup so it would recognize this drive and deal with it? And if so, can you tell us how to do it? The guy at MacLand said you can edit one of the model number strings in the HDSetup code segment to be the string you get back from the drive when you use SCSI Probe. This makes HDSetup recognize the drive, but he couldn't be sure whether HDSetup would work correctly with it thereafter. Thanks. --dave
chn@lanl.gov (Charles Neil) (01/10/90)
In article <1711@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes: > I bought a Quantum 105MB drive from MacLand, and I'm > not completely thrilled with the formatting software > they send out with it (the software comes from a > company called CRU). > > Does anyone know if it would work to patch HDSetup so > it would recognize this drive and deal with it? And if > so, can you tell us how to do it? ... > > --dave There is a blurb in the "Tip Sheet" of the May, 1989 issue of MacUser, p. 197, on how to modify HD SC Setup to recognize a drive. Unfortunately, you have to have a drive matching the size of one of the supported manufacturers. For example, I hacked 'Setup to recognize my 330 meg Wren as a Quantum, and sure enough it decided it was 80 meg. -- Charlie Neil (chn@lanl.gov) Los Alamos National Laboratory (505) 665-0978