Subject: Re: pfdisk/pdisk (was Re: trying to disklabel and newfs sd1)
To: Chris Brown <chrsbrwn@mindspring.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/19/1999 05:48:19
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Chris Brown wrote:

> Very true. It's a very useful utility. The only thing it doesn't do, that
> you might need, is install a MacOS driver and create the necessary
> partitions for the driver to work. You can still use the hacked HD SC Setup
> (or some other Mac OS formatter) to do that, though.

Can you get away with not having a driver? Of course, the disk would
be invisible to MacOS, but if MacOS doesn't hang, the Booter might
still be able to read the disk.