--- De Armas Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an external USB Fantom drive case with > cables and everything except > for the drive, they told me it need any IDE hard > disk to work, so i buy a > maxtor IDE drive at comp usa with one year warranty > and plug everything, now > it seems like the system profiler knows that an IDE > drive is conected to the > mac, but I cant see it on the desktop!
It won't show up on the desktop until you initialize the drive using drive setup in the utilities folder. Initializing it off your startup drive should work fine. > I start up > the mac with the cd to use > the utilities folder for initialize the disk , but > it cant be found, how I > set up that external usb HD? HOW I INITIALIZE THAT > DISK? what i have to do > with it? See above. For some reason (which I am not sure), you can't initailize external drives when starting from the CD. There's probably some needed extensions missing. > thanxs Albert You're welcome! Alex MacLeod __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
