No need to do anything with the drive. If you bought it from an
apple store, it's already formatted to handle apple's file system,
and even if it isn't, if you're not going to boot from it, it's not
necessary to make it one anyhow.
If it works, copy away, it'll work just fine.
And, as for the extra port on the drive, it's so you can plug in
another firewire device, (kind of like the zip drives had another
paralel port on them, so you didn't loose the one you plugged them
into. Same thing here.
On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Ok, I can hear everybody laughing because this isn't what I said I
was going to get!!! I took back the headphones; I decided not to
get a bluetooth module because we don't really need bluetooth on
Rachel's computer yet; I didn't get a printer because I didn't
think I had researched it thoroughly enough and thought I might
have to spend more money than I have at the moment. so I got a
firewire external hard drive so I can have all the audio files
available to me that were on the linux box I'm giving away.
The drive connected and plugged in and the "EXTERNAL" icon is on
the desktop and I can find it using terminal under /volumes. It's
supposed to be optimized for the Mac, but can I go ahead and create
directories and put files on the drive, or do I need to check in
disk utility to make sure a journaled filesystem is running, etc?
Also, I notice there's a spare firewire port on the external drive.
What do people usually end up using that for?
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
