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In article <39003433.C864AF9@parkfish.demon.co.uk>,
Steve Parker <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Can anyone help - I have acquired a couple of old IBM 500Meg SCSI hard
>drives which I would like to to be able to format properly to use HFS+
>My internal Hard drive is only a 700Meg but with HFS+ the block size
>comes out at 2K, but these External IBM ones after HFS+'ing have block
>sizes of 4K.  I would have expected them to be 2k or even smaller with
>HFS+.  I have only the supplied "Spirit Utilities" disk formatting
>utility which is dated 1993 and cannot trace a newer version with which
>to reformat the disks.  It would be nice to be able to use Apples own
>formatter but it  recognises these disks as never having been an
>"orginal fit" to an Mac model and refuses to do a format on them.
>
>I read somewhere once that you can with some jiggery-pokery hack Apples
>own formatter so it enables formatting of any SCSI disk and not just the
>ones Apple has at some time in the past fitted to one mac or another.
>
>Question is:
>Can someone tell me how to do this hack, or alternatively tell me where
>I might find another utility which CAN format my disks properly, but
>which either a) is shareware (or cheap) or b) is an update to Spirit Utilities
>
>My disks are IBM models DSAS-3540

Steve; the best place to ask is in uk.comp.sys.mac; I've cross-posted your
request there.

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Peter