Well, actually... it's best not to use any third party drivers with your hard drives on a MAC.
Oh bull.
That being said... Apple's newest driver (provided by Drive Setup 2.0.7) has been shown to be more efficient and faster than FWB Hard Disk ToolKit's latest. So if you can, it's worth using Apple's. But if you can't, 3rd party drivers work just fine.
Basically, you should be able to just format (initialize) them using Drive Set up, and they'll mount.
Format and initialization are NOT the same thing.
Apple's Drive Setup can handle most IDE, but only some SCSI drives.
Unless it's a firewire drive,
No such thing as a "firewire drive". They're IDE drives with a Firewire bridge chip attached.
If you're having problems with the drive mounting on start, it's probably because of your jumper settings. Make sure your drive has the correct ID set up, and that it's jumpers are set to start on hard boot. Check your drive's manufacturer's website and manuals for jumper settings. Use SCSI probe to see what your drive Id's are set to and to see which ID is open for the hard drive you are going to install.
Good point, wrt SCSI-based drives. An ID collision can be a PITA. And since most come preset to ID 0,,, they happily collide with your boot drive!
SCSI Probe good. :)
- Dan.
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