>>Hello jr,
>>I've used a third party drive setup software because Apple's Drive Setup
>>would not do an extended set up, 4k, only 68k.
>>
>>jrclark wrote:
>>>
>>> RosaKiana Rossi9/11/01 2:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED][wrote]
>>>
>>> > I have an 8500/180/208 RAM/OS 8.6/FireWireDirect FireWire/USB PCI Card.
>>> > Last month, in August, my 4.5 Narrow HD died [or so I thought ... still
>>> > not so sure] then I bought an Ultra 9.1 GB Seagate Barracuda. I used
>>> > FWB HDT PE to set this drive up in MacOS Extended.
>>>
>>> I wish i knew more so that i could express my thoughts better.
>>> Thought: I don't understand why some people use a third party
>>> disk formating tool on a Apple/Macintosh computer.
>>> So far it's Apple Drive Setup for me.
>
>You can use Drive Setup to format the drive and then use Finder to erase it
>to HFS+. I have to qualify this, I haven't tested it with a 68040 machine
>that I can recall but I believe this is correct.
>
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680x0 chips will NOT recognize an HFS+ formatted drive! You can ONLY use
these drives in PPC Macs. If you try and open the drive on a 68k Mac, all
you will see is a file called "Where have all my files gone?" Which
explains that you can't use the disk in a 68k machine.
-Joshuha
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