Re: Low formatting...

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From: Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant...
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:44

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tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada) writes:

>soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
>> 
>> Hello Macers!
>> 
>> One again I come to you for help!
>> 
>> Could anyone tell me if there is a hard drive low formatting
>> program available (either PD or commercial)? I have an SCSI
>> hard drive (perfectly working on other type of machines) but
>> refusing to work on a Mac. May be it is due to a low format 
>> problem.
>> 
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>> Richard Soubyran
>> soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca

>Actually I was going to ask a similar question...
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>As for a formatting program for the HD, if you don't have a generic
>formatter such as Casablanca's Drive 7, OnTrack's Disk Manager Mac,
>La Cie's SilverLining, FWB HD Toolkit, SCSI Director etc... you might want to
>consider getting one. Though the best would be to find a friend who has
>recently purchased a HD and see if the formatting utility they got with
>their HD will work on yours. If it does, and you like, it buy it.

>I believe SCSI Tools (not the cdev) is still available at
>sumex-aim.standford.edu, which _might_ be able to format your HD.
> 

According to my understanding, SCSI Tools cannot format HD

Mr.Sai-Kee WONG
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>Tom
>------------------------
>Tom Nakada
>San Diego City College
>tnakada@eis.calstate.edu

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