Jon Glass wrote:
>Well, I wiped my hard drive, and tried to re-format it. It is, indeed, a
>Conner 240. I could not replace the Silverlining driver with the Apple one,
>even after wiping the Silverlining driver. I can never get the "Update"
>option in HDSC setup to turn on, and when I try to use HD SC setup to
>format, it dies at the verification stage, saying it couldn't verify the
>data. I also have this happen if I try to test the drive. However, when I
>run the tests in Silverlining, I find no problems, and everything goes
>fine. At least until I try to sleep the drive, then I get the dreaded "A
>disk has been remove that was needed. Please put it back!" message. Sigh. I
>suppose I'll never get it to sleep. So much for portability. :-) Thanks for
>the suggestions and help.
Has the copy of HD SC Setup you're using been patched to recognise drives
with no Apple ROM? Open it with Resedit and check the one-byte "wfwr"
resource - if it's 00, it's unpatched (change it to FF if you'd like to fix
that). You need to figure out whether it's the existing driver that's
causing HD SC Setup to balk, or the drive itself. Another way to tell
whether it's an Apple drive is simply to look for the Apple sticker on it,
of course (assuming you've opened up the Duo).
If it's just the presence of the Silverlining driver that's causing your
problem, you can work around that by manually hacking the disk's partition
map with Norton Disk Editor. This can be a bit daunting, as you might
imagine. You might also be able to use another, more flexible tool like an
old version of FWB HD Toolkit to make that driver inactive.
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