> From: Dan Wood <wood0366@mac.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:34:55 -1000
> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Hello?
> 
> I'm relatively new to this entire port business, having grown up with i386
> linux, NT4, and W2K, and MacOS (both X and 6-9).
> 
> I also was wondering if the maintainer for the Installer application was still
> maintaining it; I've been having these phase errors when using the installer
> on my SE/30. I was hoping to maybe work on it but I have no development
> platform for the 68k, which makes any poking and prodding I do at the
> Installer source academic.
> 
> I've already made the rounds and ensured that my root partition is under the
> first 1GB of the disk, that I had installed and enabled Mode32 under System
> 7.0.1, allocated plenty of memory to the Installer application... But the
> thing that's confusing me is the fact that even with a patched Apple SCSI HD
> setup utility to enable it to recognise my harddrive, it has difficulties
> partitioning and formatting. The drive is a Quantum 2100 (or something along
> those lines). I tried using a 4GB Seagate, but it also ha
> d the same issues.
> 
> I resorted to a partitioning utility by the name of Driver d2, which seems to
> work, but I don't get a real warm, fuzzy feeling about the driver.
> 
> Thank you for your time and bandwidth...
> 
> -Dan Wood
> 
> 

I'm using several SCSI disks myself, that lack Apple ROMs.  I find that the
best way to format these drives is to use the Hard Drive Setup Utility that
Apple provided specifically for use with A/UX.  I forget the precise version
number, but it can usually be found on some of Apple's Service Source CDs.

Good luck