Here is a list of some free Mac SCSI driver/formatter software. The only one that works successfully for me under ShapeShifter is the Pinnacle Micro driver. Others may well work under Fusion; ShapeShifter's SCSI support seems to be a little buggy.

It would be great if someone could run some benchmarks for each of these drivers, and also report on how stable they are under different emulators and hardware setups.

Lido 7.56

Ex-commercial package. Probably does not support 2K-per-sector MO disks.

Manager

ftp://ftp.formac.com/public/updates/Manager/Manager-6.2.3.sit.hqx ftp://ftp.formac.com/public/updates/Manager/manager7.0.5.sit.hqx (the MacBinary files in the same directory are broken; ignore them) Supplied with Formac storage devices. May be limited in its device support; examine the executable using ResEdit and read the device name strings.

MicroNet Utility and MicroNet Cartridge Extension

ftp://www.infotogo.micronet.com/MacFiles/MNU727.hqx ftp://www.infotogo.micronet.com/MacFiles/MNCE751.hqx Supplied with MicroNet storage devices. See the MicroNet web site at http://www.infotogo.micronet.com/ for more information.

Pinnacle Formatter

http://www.pinnaclemicro.com/files/fw_sw/mac/pmo33.hqx http://www.pinnaclemicro.com/files/fw_sw/mac/pmo32.hqx This is probably specific to MO drives. Version 3.2 only works on Pinnacle Micro drives. Version 3.3 works on any, and supports 2K-per-sector disks. The formatter works for low- and high-level formats. You can set blind read/writes and write verify modes on a per-partition basis. Apparently incompatible with MacOS 8.x, though I have no way to test this. I'd like to know exactly what incompatibilities there are. Compared to generic software like FormatterOne Pro, the Pinnacle mounter INIT only uses about 27K of memory.

Also on the Pinnacle site is their old CD Burner software. Of interest because it includes a basic backup program that can backup to any volume, not just CD-Rs. It can do incremental as well as full and image backups.

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