cliff@spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) (07/27/90)
If I put a Quantum 105 mb from a Sun into my Mac II should I expect it to work? I have heard that the physical interface is somehow munged on the Sun. Is this true? What will I need to format the drive? (public domain hopefully). -cliff -- Cliff Spencer spdcc!cspencer cspencer@spdcc.com
wgstuken@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Stukenbrock ) (07/28/90)
cliff@spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) writes: >If I put a Quantum 105 mb from a Sun into my Mac II should I expect it to work? >I have heard that the physical interface is somehow munged on the Sun. Is this true? >What will I need to format the drive? (public domain hopefully). > -cliff If you have allready a drive, it will be easy. You have to copy the driver form youur old drive to the new one and edit the Volume header to the size of the new drive. (2 or 3 long-words). Thats all, and the drive will run with the Mac. Wolfgang wgstuken@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
chris@com50.c2s.mn.org (Chris Johnson) (07/31/90)
In article <3476@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> cliff@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) writes: >If I put a Quantum 105 mb from a Sun into my Mac II should I expect it to work? >I have heard that the physical interface is somehow munged on the Sun. Is this true? >What will I need to format the drive? (public domain hopefully). No, Sun did not alther the physical interface. Cabling should be plug-n-play. You will need some sort of Mac software that will allow labeling and driving generic SCSI drives, unless the latest & greatest Mac system software was generalized to do that. As of System 6.0 and before, the Mac software only recognized and correctly handled Apple supplied hard drives. I believe there are a number of shareware/freeware programs that will do what you want, however. -- ...Chris Johnson chris@c2s.mn.org ..uunet!bungia!com50!chris Com Squared Systems, Inc. St. Paul, MN USA +1 612 452 9522
det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (08/01/90)
In article <1990Jul30.172530.9530@com50.c2s.mn.org>, chris@com50.c2s.mn.org (Chris Johnson) writes: > You will need some sort of Mac software that will allow labeling and driving > generic SCSI drives, unless the latest & greatest Mac system software was > generalized to do that. As of System 6.0 and before, the Mac software > only recognized and correctly handled Apple supplied hard drives. I believe > there are a number of shareware/freeware programs that will do what you > want, however. I would like to possibly do this in unix. I have an adaptec mfm-scsi bridge card but need the software (that will run on unix system V, or even messy-dos) to properly label and set up (i.e., format, among other things) a miniscribe 6085 drive to look like a scsi so the bridge will work properly. Does anyone know of such a beast and would they be willing to send me a copy? (Although email me first so i don't get 100 copies) derek -- Derek Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG Minnesota Field Hockey Association, North Central Section University of Minnesota Women's Lacrosse
lsh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Lan S Hsieh) (08/01/90)
>In article <3476@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> cliff@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) writes: >If I put a Quantum 105 mb from a Sun into my Mac II should I expect >it to work? >What will I need to format the drive? (public domain hopefully). What you need to do is either get a copy of a universal SCSI disk formatting software, like OnTrack or SilverLining, or hack Apple's SC HD setup to format your drive. If you are handy with fedit or any other utility which lets you modify sectors in hex while observing in ASCII, I can send you the info needed to modify this utility so it will recognize almost any SCSI drive. I use the same drive in my Mac, formatted with Apple's SC HD Setup (modified). If you are not handy with fedit or afraid of writing sectors in files, you can buy Silverlining for ~$100 or OnTrack from us for $40. We have a copy we don't need or use. Thank you.