[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?
Any non-Apple branded harddrive, needs a driver in the Mac. why? I dunno! why did apple do it like that?*, even older Drive Setup versions would not want to format it. Anyway a low-level format of a 10GB HD, in an old and slow mac will in some cases take about 3-4 hours. I think yours might be frozen. Try again. A low-level format is only needed if the drive is formatted with blocks of a size other than 512. Of course the PC will do that. Also remember to format on HFS+ so you can make the most of your large drive, only do an HFS format if you have partitions smaller than 1 GB. You can also mix it, I have 2 HFS and 5 HFS+. The 2 are from 700MB to1GB while the others range from 1.5GB to 2GB. * thinking about it Apple may have done it so you would spend the money you'd normally spend for FWB HardDisk Toolkit in an Apple branded harddrive. It is very unfair there aren't many free options for format programs! :-| Seeing it in another point of view there are lots of PC things that are like that too, that's why Bill Gates was once accused of having a monopoly. ��Liliana�� Human is the only specie in the world that kill just for the fun of it, because they are the only specie in the world who's capable of hate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Millions of animal species have become extinct because of men, there was only one time when humans where close to extinction; ironically it wasn't because of animals. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
