Any commercial disk utility worthy of the name can format HDDs for Mac. 'Commercial' involves a cost with all but Silverlining, a utility supplied by LaCie with its external drives. Silverlining is capable of 'taking over' a drive that has been formatted with non-Apple software, given that the old software came from this side of Jupiter.
Silverlining 5.8.x, under 'Hard Drive links', can also compensate for slow SCSI throughput in older Mac CPUs by adjusting the 'interleave factor' from 1:1 up to 3:1 (number of platter revolutions to read a complete track), which is desirable for the Plus (3:1) and SE (2:1). Modern drives with track buffers, as opposed to drives that were contemporay with 68000-processor Macs, may not need interleave adjustment, but the deficiency lies in the CPU—not the drive—so be aware of the possibility.
The utility Mt Everything, an earlier version of which is also available from gamba's page, can often get hold of slippery drives.
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