Good formatter for SE/30?

[johnklos]

While not strictly a Unix question, I'm curious about what free formatter people are using for SCSI drives on SE/30 type machines. My SE/30 can boot off of the Network Access floppy disk, and I can access tools over the network and do things with the internal hard drive (which is a modern IDE drive on a SCSI-IDE adapter), but when I try to boot from that drive, it doesn't happen. I tried Apple HD SC and Drive Setup, but I'm not sure what kind of SCSI driver the SE/30 requires.

Suggestions?

 

[porter]

In their wisdom Apple required people to use Apple disks with Apple tools. If you have a 3rd party disk you are on your own.

There are some ways of patching HD SC Setup.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html

 

[Dog Cow]

I happen to have disk images of Silverlining ( a disk formatter utility) which I can send to you if you want.

 

[Charlieman]

In their wisdom Apple required people to use Apple disks with Apple tools.

Or perhaps Apple decided, for cost reasons, that they couldn't test their formatter against every unpredictable, non-standard SCSI drive on the market. Use Apple's formatter and Apple's disk and it will work. Use a third party disk and a third party formatter, and it may or may not work. If you experience problems, talk to the writer of the formatter. That makes sense to me.

 

[porter]

That makes sense to me.

Their HD SC Setup for A/UX works with any standard SCSI drive.

 

[Charlieman]

Their HD SC Setup for A/UX works with any standard SCSI drive.

Badly. It is hit and miss whether a drive supports "Blind Writes". SCSI Manager 4.3 support?