Well it took about 2.5 hours but it did work, a lot faster than the original ram, all I need is more RAM in this machine.
-----Original Message----- From: PCI PowerMacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie Reyes Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 7:58 PM To: PCI PowerMacs Subject: Re: Low-Level Format [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I took the 2gb stock Apple-branded Quantum drive out of my 5500/250 and >replaced it with a 10gb 7200rpm Quantum that I had used before on a PC. >When I started up from the Mac OS 8.5 cd it asked if I wanted to >initialize the disk and I said yes. Then when I opened up Drive Setup it >said something about a disk driver but that it could still initialize >the drive, I chose to do a low level format. > >It's been over 1.5 hours and it's still doing that. Should I reboot the >computer and do a normal format? Or will it then force me to do a low >level? And this is the only way to get a drive with the proper drivers >to work with a mac? Also what exactly are these "drivers" is it sort of >like the boot sector on a windows pc? > My Performa 6320's ROM would only recognize drives no larger than 4 GB so to get a 9-10 gig drive mounted I've had to partition the drive into 2 equal halves. If I am not mistaken your 5500 may have the same limitation. Restarting may cause the drive not to be recognized so you'll need a third party utility like FWB's Hard Dist Toolkit to mount the drive. If that doesn't do it mount it to your PC, FDISK it and and format it, enabling large disk support. Remount to your 5500 and get Drive Setup to set partition into 2 before initializing it (high level format). Good luck. Charlie -- 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
