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In article <2912@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:

<discussion on formatting Jasmine 80's and EasyDrive 80's with Apple's drivers>

>Okay, does someone want to tell me what's going on here?  *Why* would you want
>to use _Apple's_ formatter program on your non-Apple drive?  Don't Jasmine
>and DCC drives come with their own manager programs?  Or are Jasmine's and
>DCC's drivers so buggy that they're unusable :-)

  One of the advantages of formatting your Jasmine drive with Apple's old HD
SC Setup 1.1 was that your drive was Mac II-compatible before Jasmine got their
SCSI driver ready (I still don't have the Mac II-compatible one, though it is
out). Another reason to try to format a drive with Apple or other SCSI software
is to examine performance. I have formatted a Jasmine 80 with Jasmine's
software, Apple's HD SC Setup 1.1, and CMS' SCSI Utility 3.2F. I don't have
the numbers handy, but the DiskTimer II results were the best with the Jasmine
driver). Yet another reason is if you are having problems with your drive - I
was experiencing some strange crashes with the drive, and the usual replacing
System file/reformat juggling never solved the problem. I tested the drive
with all three SCSI drivers to determine if the problem was in any way related
to the SCSI drive (which it was not - I never did find out the solution to my
problem, but it has stopped happening).

>Christopher Chow

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