If this is a new drive from seagate it would already be low level formatted.
I just got a Seagate Barracuda 9.1 GB drive and it was formatted already.
You have to pick a choice for the kind of initializing you want. It
should show HFS and HFS+. Although I did that with mine and it only
showed HFS. So I purchased HardDisk Tool online and used it to
initialize the drive to HFS+.
> Alex Allee wrote:
> > And it will spin and spin... a low level format can take a loooong
> > time. If you don't need to low level format, don't.
>
> OK, maybe I'm misunderstanding something. I thought a low level format would
> make the drive an HFS+ and isn't an HFS+ what I should be using with OS 9?
>
> Does anyone know approximately how long it takes to format a low level drive
> that is 4.5G?
>
> Can anyone recommend what drive I should get if I want an HFS+? I'm about to
> give up on this one, and can't afford to be down for too long.
>
> Linda
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