A/UX: How to Reformat a Third-party Disk for Macintosh OS



I'm working with a large number of A/UX systems with A/UX configuration on
Maxtor 200MB disks. However, we need to reinitialize some of the Maxtor disks
to all Macintosh OS. Of course, Apple's HD SC Setup doesn't recognize these
disks. Can you suggest a disk-formatting product that would successfully
reinitialize them?

How did you format the Maxtor 200MB disks to work under A/UX? You would have
needed some type of disk formatter or partition software to format the Maxtor
200MB disks to work under A/UX.

Here are two ways to reinitialize the Maxtor 200MB disks for Macintosh OS only:

1) Since it is an A/UX disk, you can use "dp" under A/UX to repartition the
entire disk into a single Macintosh partition. To do this, remove all of
the "Apple_UNIX_SVR2" partition types and enlarge the Macintosh "Apple_HFS"
partition types.

Note: Do not delete the "Apple_Partition_map" and "Apple_Driver" partition
types.

2) Use the Macintosh hard-disk management software called "Silverlining" from
La Cie Ltd. For more details, search the Technical Info library under "La
Cie."


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012