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Hard Drive Drivers

. Correcting Hard Disk Driver Problems.............................................................Updated 5/24/99
.
All Hard Drives, Zips and cartidges contain an invisible partition.
. This partition contains the instructions for accessing the drive's data.
These instructions are placed on the drive when the formatter erases the drive.
ng the drive's data.
ng the drive's data.

Drive Setup 1.2.2

Mac OS 7.6

DANGER Problems with certain harddrive models

Drive Setup v1.3

OS 8.0

DANGER with certain models

Drive Setup v1.3.1

Released as bug fix

Drive Setup v1.4

OS 8.1

Hard Disk ToolKit v2.0x or v2.5

from FWB

IDE drives from Seagate or Western Digital in a Power Mac 4400's or a StarMax clone

Power Mac or Performa model 5260, 54XX, or 6360 with a 1.2GB drive

Apple's Drive Setup.

. Version: 1.3 has a bug that can render some drive types unusable.Drive Setup 1.3, the version that shipped with Mac OS 8.0, if you update your disk driver or reformat your drive with this version of Drive Setup and you have a desktop Mac with an IDE drive. Version 1.3.1 was the update to fix this problem.
Danger: DO NOT update the driver on your IDE HardDrive if you reinstall OS 8.0 (OS 8.1 has the 1.4 version and is safe.
 
 


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