Subject: Re: looking for a patch to Apple's HDSC
To: Wada, Tatsuaki <wada@ee.ibaraki.ac.jp>
From: Henry B. Hotz <henry.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/22/1996 11:30:24
At 12:32 PM 5/22/96, Wada, Tatsuaki wrote:
>But this patch is applied to only the version of 7.3.2.
>I want to use multiple partitions, and I found from
>"MacInTouch 1996 News Archive May 3, 1996" that:
>
>        Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (88K) handles Apple SCSI drives
>        and multiple partitions.
>
>Does AppleHDSCSetup7.3.2+ handle multiple partitions?

The Apple formatter has handled multiple partitions for as long as I can
remember.  Just hit the Partition button and take it from there.  (The A/UX
auto-setups will create an Eschatology partition, which you will probably
want to delete.)

As an aside someone on the A/UX newsgroup did some Think C compile tests a
couple of years ago and found that under MacOS the Apple disk drivers were
about 30% faster than most of the third party formatters' drivers.  I think
FWB came close, but *nobody* was faster than Apple.

I don't agree with the common wisdom that says the Apple formatter sucks.
Given the patch so it works on non-Apple drives, I think it is a decent
program without the clutter of features I don't need or care about.

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