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Tony <Tony@millington.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>         This is the stage that has now been arrived at:- 
> Quantum 540 MB SCSI drive purchased today from an IBM dealer, therefore
> no set-up disks supplied to help with the Mac IIcx      :-(
> Paid �54 plus VAT = �63.45 , hope it was worth it       :-) 
>         The operating system floppy disks won't do anything to it.
>         Norton disk doctor sees it exists, but as an unknown quantity.
> I think you are right in that some sort of formatter is needed. 

It's a MacIIcx so it can't run Drive Setup AFAIK. First guess is get HD
SC Setup 7.3.5 and the patcher to allow it to attempt to format any HDD:

ftp://ftp13.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Macin
tosh/Utilities/Apple_HD_SC_Setup_7.3.5.sea.hqx
ftp://ftp13.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Macin
tosh/Utilities/Apple_HD_SC_Setup_7.3.5_Readme.txt

HD SC Setup patch to allow HD SC Setup to format non Apple HDDs

info-mac mirror:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/info-mac/disk/apple-hd-
sc-setup-735-patch.hqx

This will probably work (Apple uses Quantum HDDs so it's probably the
best solution if it does work).  If so, all well and good.  If not,  try
here:

http://www.surfcty.com/lido/lido7.html


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