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Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 patch

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Category:	Utilities
Year released:	1995
Author:	Apple
Publisher:

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
DiskTools-753-patched.sit (1.22 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
apple_hd_sc_setup.p.sit (38.56 KB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
hd_sc_setup.sit (39.91 KB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
hd_sc_setup_3.0.1_aux.sit (58.62 KB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation
Guides on emulating older applications

Disk utility initialising almost every SCSI hard disk for SSW 7.

Useful if you wanted to format a non Apple drive.

Top DL: Mac OS 7.5.3 Disk Tools 1 disk with patched "Apple HD SC Setup v7.3.5". This is a Disk Copy 4.2 floppy disk image. It must be written back to 1.4MB floppy media. It will start up any 68k Macintosh capable of booting System Software 7.0 - 7.5.5 and has a SCSI Hard drive as standard. "Apple HD SC Setup v7.3.5" requires Mac OS 7.5.3 or newer to run, hence it's inclusion with this boot floppy.
2nd DL: Patched "Apple HD SC Setup" that you can add to a boot disk. This file was compressed with Stuffit7 on my iMac G3, hope this will do...
3rd DL: Patched "Apple HD SC Setup" file deflated with Stuffit 3.5 for good backwards compatibility
4th DL: Added the similar Apple HD SC Setup 3.0.1 (A/UX) from `93 as third upload for completeness.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Apple HD SC Setup v7.3.5, can partition SCSI hard drives and format them for Mac (HFS), Unix (A/UX) and ProDOS systems.

Limitations: Predates HFS+, therefore cannot format drives as such.

For instructions or hints on patching "Drive Setup" to format unsupported ATA & SCSI drives.

Note: Patching Drive Setup requires using ResEdit.

Comments

by melomac - 2018, March 12 - 9:50am

Reverse engineers and localization enthusiasts, the patch change an octet (it sometimes is enough):
wfwr 67 0x0000: 00 -> FF

EDIT: this was already explained here

by MikeTomTom - 2017, November 18 - 10:20pm

Both of these failed for me under MacOS 8.6

I do not recommend that anyone use this in a Mac OS beyond 7.6.1 - This formatting tool predates HFS+ (which it cannot do) and for Mac OS's from 8.1 on and with much larger capacity hard drives that have emerged since 1995, HFS+ is pretty much the only way to go.

For larger capacity SCSI drives of say 4GB and larger; If they are unsupported and cannot be initialized or formatted by Apple's Drive Setup (assuming using a classic Mac OS here), then its possible to patch Drive Setup too. That way you can get an HFS+ formatted unsupported hard drive with Apple drivers. - Or, use any other formatting tool, or OS X's Drive Utility, etc...

That said. For earlier 68k Macs running Systems from 7.0 through 7.6x, I have had very good results with the patched HD SC Setup tool, when formatting unsupported SCSI drives. No failures to formatting so far. Not that I've used this with every unsupported SCSI hard drive on the planet to come up with some kind of statistical error rate...

by Troyd - 2017, November 18 - 6:58am

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this is successful in about 80% of operations while a third party SCSI partitioner Lido worked in well over 95%. Both of these failed for me under MacOS 8.6 in a B&W GB with a drive attached to an Adaptec card. I managed to get the drive sliced and mounted with Anubis 3.1.

Depending upon your setup, you might have to try a few of the old SCSI utilities before you find one that works.

by 3371-Alpha - 2017, October 21 - 12:41am

If I'm not mistaken this was succeeded by drive setup, either way I found this file's original page here for the sake of completeness.

by 24bit - 2011, May 21 - 4:55pm

Fixed the mistyping.