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Article #21276Re: Writing your own installer for home built SCSI disks
From: mike
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1987 21:12
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1987 21:12
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In article <4256@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> borton@net1.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:
>In article <181@artsvax.UUCP> mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger) writes:
>>As for the driver that needs to be written on the disk, I've read the
>>developer info, and it seems to indicate that the driver is kept in
>>a resource with a non-standard name, to be decided by the vendor. If
>>this is the case, why can't I just copy the driver using ResEdit into
>>my program?
>
>The driver also needs to be on the first two blocks of the hard disk, which
>are inaccessible by normal programs (even Fedit).
>
The driver isn't on the first two blocks, they contain header information.
They can be accessed through the SCSI manager, which I have already managed
to do. They question was whether I can just copy a driver from another
formatter/init program. Fortunately, I managed to figure it out myself.
I think the driver needs to be somewhat customized, so as long as the
driver is for the same type of disk, everything should be all right. I've
got ahold of the Developers SCSI example driver, and am working on it.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!osupyr!artsvax!mike From: mike@artsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Writing your own installer for home built SCSI disks Message-ID: <183@artsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 16:12:14 EST Article-I.D.: artsvax.183 Posted: Thu Nov 5 16:12:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 09:21:28 EST References: <181@artsvax.UUCP> <4256@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: mike@artsvax.UUCP (Michael Czeiszperger) Organization: OSU College of the Arts Computer Lab Lines: 27 Keywords: scsi adaptec problems