On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
> > Charles Davis wrote: >> >> On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:33 PM, tonycd wrote: >> >>> Pardon me for quasi-hijacking this thread, but I just ran into >>> nearly >>> the same exact problem. >>> >>> Only worse: my external FireWire drive isn't seen at all. (3 >>> partitions: a Panther, a Tiger and a Leopard.) >> >> Just to try and keep things 'understandable' ----- >> >> >> Your External Firewire drive has 3 partitions. >> >> One of which boots Panther, >> One of which boots Tiger, and >> One of which boots Leopard. >> >> ALL of these partitions are JUST Partitions. >> There isn't ANYTHING other than the contents to define them as >> Panther, Tiger, or Leopard. >> >> The question is, which format is the Hard Disk? >> >> HFS, HFS+, or Journaled HFS+ ??? > > The harddisk isn't any format, the partitions are. You could mix HFS, > HFS+ and FAT 32 on the same drive if you wanted to. The harddisk > has a > certain partition scheme. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting You are right Clark --- chalk it up to trying to simplify too much. Chuck D. > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
