>>A recent experience I had involved a 40 gig Barracuda IDE drive/SCSI bridge >>pulled from an 8500 where it crashed and couldn't be remounted. My normal >>procedure is to mount it to a PC where I perform low level format, except >>that it would show no more than 5.9 GB no matter how I repeatedly >>reformatted it. Intuitively I reattached the SCSI bridge and installed it >>to a 7600. Drive Setup could see and initialize it as 38.4 GB. >> >>Charlie > >but the enigma is then did the PC do some fiddling or did the mac ?? >L
Probably both. DOS rewrote the directory which Drive Setup recognized. 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/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
