Michael Bryan Bell wrote:

> You can make partitions using drive setup too...

Yes, I know,  but DS can't make a partition of a *part* of your HD and leave the
rest untouched.

> I know they USED to be popular because apple's drive setup only supported
> apple drives (with the ROM) and wouldn1t recognize 3rd party drives... So
> hard drives usually shipped with a "lite" version. I know way back someone
> even went as far as to create a "crack" for drive setup which let it see 3rd
> party drives...

Yeah, I occasionaly visit that site with the DS "crack" for people with old SCSI
drives.

> Same used to happen with 3rd party CD drives, and kind of like how CD-R
> drives still come with toast

IIRC wasn't it the Apple CD driver 5.3.1 from OS 7.6 or so which works with all
3rd party drives. There's also a patched Apple CD driver around which also works
with Toast.

But what I'm really curious of is why people using those utilities on their HDs
nowadays.

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