>Got a new drive the other night for my G4 800. Swapped out my 20GB audio >file drive with a new Maxtor 40GB. Previously I had only the system drive on >the system ATA bus, and my audio drive and extra 20GB storage drive on my >Sonnet ATA66 card.. Well I moved the storage drive onto the system bus with >the 40GB Seagate drive. Left the new 40GB audio drive on the Sonnet. > >Under OS X everything shows up just fine. >Booted into OS 9 last night to run some tracks for someone and my storage >drive wouldn't mount. >Drive Setup and Norton could both see it but couldn't make it mount. >Drive Setups info said no Mac Partitions on it, Norton Disk Doctor did see >the Mac OS Extended file system. > >After trying to update the disk driver, run disk doctor, norton volume >recover, etc, it still wouldn't mount. >What I ended up doing was copying the 4GB of info on it to my system drive >then just reinitialized the drive. >Now it works in both OS's..
The best thing, I believe, is just initializing in OS 9 always.as X will read HFS, HFS+ and UFS (9 does not read UFS and many X apps don't recognize UFS -- MS Office is a primary example). -- Ryan Coleman Coleman Web / Internet Services http://coleman-web.net/ http://lemlists.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (612) 378-7901 -- 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>
