I recently got a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 80 GB EIDE 7200 RPM Hard Drive. I installed it in a PTP 250 with a Sonnet Tempo ATA66 card and a Sonnet G3/450 card.
I formatted the drive with Silverlining Pro 6.4.. I reserved too 8,000 MB partitions at the start of the drive as "Free", i.e., unformatted, believing that by doing that I could later reformat them for OS X and, maybe, Linux or FreeBSD. It appears that, using Silverlining Pro 6.4, or the 6.4.5 update that I just downloaded, one can easily reformat and/or resize a volume that was previously created and which shows up in the list of volumes for the drive. However, the partitions set aside as Free don't show up in the list and cannot be selected! I tried changing them to HFS+ by selecting the drive and clidking Setup->Custom, clicking the partition and changing it to HFS+ , but the partition just reverts to Free afterwards. Am I missing something, or is this a serious bug in Silverlining? I don't want to have to back up my data and reformat the entire drive, and I don't want to spend $50 or more on some better formatting software. Help!? BTW, is HFS+ the proper disk format for OS X? -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
