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gt4148b@prism.gatech.edu (Stephen Carter Morgan) writes:
>THAT IS correct.  What you said in the first place was "PC drives don't need
>formatting software, since they rely on the adapter's built-in driver."  The
>adapter won't do a dang bit of good with a new drive if FDISK and FORMAT (or
>equivalents for non-DOS systems) aren't available.

Those, however, come with DOS (or Windows), not with the drive.

> Incidentally, you need
>a replacement for FDISK if you want to make a partition > 528MB.

No, you need a replacement for DOS.  UNIX, for example.

>GROW UP.  All Mac users say you need more technical knowledge to deal with
>PC's :^).  Have you even built a PC from scratch?  Nothing but a collection
>of parts and manuals....  It took me about 2 hours, including installing the
>sound card and CD-ROM.

Yes, I have.  I've also assembled any number of Versabus-based and VME-based
68020 systems, rebuilt a PDP-11, and done the card work on a supercomputer
(thankfully, I did not have to put the chassis together myself).