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Drive Setup 1.5 Released


Apple has released Drive Setup 1.5, the company’s free disk formatting utility. Version 1.5 adds support for Power Macintosh G3 computers and fixes a bug where the write cache on some ATA drives was disabled following a restart. Drive Setup 1.5 requires U.S. English versions of Mac OS 7.6 or later; while this isn’t an urgent update unless you’re experiencing difficulties, if you’re installing Mac OS 7.6 or later, it’s a good idea to use Drive Setup 1.5 to update your hard disk driver again. Drive Setup 1.5 is available as a self-mounting image file and is a 476K download; be sure to go over the Read Me file for important information.


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