Linda (& everyone),
I thought I would add in a personal experience with my Seagate drive and formatting.
I have a copy of Toolkit (version 2.something) which included the crisis disk. I used
the crisis disk to autoinitialize which gave me an initial partition of 1.99 gig and
nothing else recognized (the remaining 7 gigs). When I did this and then restarted
with the OS 9 disk, drive setup could only see that partition. I initialized it as
HFS+. Once I did that I rebooted still from the CD and ran Drive Setup again. This
time It recognized the entire hard drive and I could select how many partitions I
wanted and whether I wanted HFS or HFS+. The I just clicked initialize and it went
from there. It seems like a kind of round-about way of doing things but it worked on
this drive and quite well from the looks of it.
It's definitely a frustrating thing to work with though and some or all of this
information may have been repeated and if so...sorry all. Use or don't use any of it
for what it's worth. :)
Chris
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