on 1/15/03 8:50 AM, Joe Ellis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Zelinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:29 AM > Subject: Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo > > >> on 1/15/03 7:21 AM, Luca Rescigno at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>> Thanks very much- I can work with that info... >>>> >>>> So, it's not some kind of pismo incompatibility issue, or rpm speed >>>> issue >>>> then? >>>> >>>> >>>> Ed >>> >>> I don't know if it's incompatible... it's possible but it doesn't seem >>> likely. However, I am sure it's not too high RPMs for your Pismo, >>> that's not an issue. >>> >> Just Connected to a G4 tower and got the "this disk is unreadable. Do you >> want to initialize or eject" dialog box so the drive is working. >> >> it must be my Pismo. >> > > WHOOA, what it's telling you is that the drive was formatted for a PC, You > need to initialize it for a Mac. Also you didn't mention if you are using OS > 9 or X; if you intend to use it with a machine running OS 9 you need to be > sure to add the OS 9 disk drivers as well. OS X machines don't care about > the drivers but you want to be using HFS+ if you need compatability. > > Joe Ellis > I was running OS 9 -I had to download OS 9.1 and the icon popped right on. Thanks for all the ideas!
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