Odds are you've never used anything but Apple’s HD SC Setup or Drive Setup utility to format your hard drives. But if you don’t have an Apple hard drive (Apple’s disk formatters work only with Apple drives) or you’re looking to speed up your drive’s performance, you may want to cheek out one of the third-party formatters. With CharisMac’s Anubis, you can format most of the available SCSI and IDE hard drives as well as removable media.
You activate all of Anubis’s features from a single program window, though you’ll probably never stray beyond Auto Initialize... This single command checks the drive for defects, erases the data, installs the Anubis SCSI device driver, and lets you partition the drive into multiple volumes. You can also click on separate buttons to format, initialize, and partition a drive; update the SCSI device driver on your hard disk; verify and test a drive; and mount or unmount a device. Other nice touches are a Mounter extension that loads removable media on your Macintosh after it boots, and an array of hard-disk icons that you can assign to your drives.
I used Anubis to back up, reformat, and restore my Power Mac 9500’s two internal hard drives, and the program performed flawlessly. My experience formatting a PowerBook 5300ce's internal 1.1GB IDE drive using Anubis wasn’t quite as favorable; there was a slight but noticeable performance degradation. CharisMac’s technical support suggested I tweak Anubis’s drive-cache settings to boost performance. Although that helped, it was a trial-and-error process.
If your Macintosh has only one hard drive, you may have a problem with Anubis; it includes neither a start-up disk nor instructions on how to create one. CharisMac recommends that users set up a RAM disk or use a system CD to hoot the Mac and format the internal drive. Of course, if vour Mac won’t support a RAM disk, has insufficient memory to make a RAM disk, or lacks a system CD, you’re out of luck. My other quibble is that the screen does not display either the progress of the disk-formatting operation or how long the process will take. If you have a Power Mac, however, the program can run in the background.
The Last Word With the quality of hard-drive formatters becoming consistently good overall, Anubis excels by offering a slick, easy-to-use interface and prompt, accurate, courteous technical support. Although its performance with IDE drives is less than perfect, I recommend Anubis without hesitation for SCSI drives and removable media.
Steinberg, Gene. (May 1996). Anubis 2.54. Macworld. (pg. 76).
CharisMac Engineering, Inc.
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
