greg@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) (09/24/90)
I recently purchased a Tiny Tiger II SCSI interface and a separate hard
drive for it. I recieved the interface Friday, and a look through the
included disk yielded no evidence on how to low-level format the drive.
A friend of mine who works for the local dealer says that in general, the
drive must be low-level formatted with interface-specific software, and
then formatted normally with AmigaDOS' "format" command (after the drive
has been mounted with the correct # of cylinders, etc.).
M.A.S.T.'s interface appears normal, excepting of course that it uses the
parallel port (I know -- SLOW, but I have my reasons). They implemented
it with a device driver. Other than that, the mountlist entry is normal.
(FastFileSystem, etc)
What I need to know, I guess, is if a hard drive maintenance program exists
that is not interface-specific (i.e. it allows me to specify the device
driver)...
Does anybody know of such a program? PD/freeware/shareware is preferred,
but if a commercial program does the best (only?) job, I'll go for it.
Also, the drive I am getting is used. Will I _need_ to low-level format it?
It's only a 20MB partition, so I won't want to partition it up or anything.
I'm new to SCSI devices, but I know hardware/software pretty well (in case
you're wondering on what level I need the answer to be).
Replybyemailthanksinadvance!
Greg
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