How to format non-Apple drives with HD Setup

[Steve Anderson]

Using ResEdit to hack HDSC-setup so that it will handle non-Apple
disks may well work, but there are limitations. My efforts to set up a
580 Mbyte Wren V this way failed: the apparent reason is a timeout
present in the code that causes operations like initialize and
partition to fail if they take too long (e.g., if the disk is a lot
bigger than any of the ones the program was originally intended to
deal with). "test" runs successfully to completion on this disk, but
both "init" and "partition" time out and fail.

Question: why can't Apple include a general purpose utility comparable
to SilverLining (which handled this disk without problems) with A/UX?
UNIX users won't want to live with nothing bigger than a HD-160SC
forever...

Steve Anderson
Cognitive Science Center
The Johns Hopkins University

anderson at sapir.cog.jhu.edu
anderson at cs.jhu.edu
anderson at csli.stanford.edu