Re: Formatting a SCSI HD for both Mac and Windows 98SE

[Jesse Stanford]

Anyone formatted a SCSI HD for both Mac and Windows 98SE? I think there is
an option to do with both Mac and Dos in Drive Set up (Frightened to look
just for the moment because the option may or may not come up after one
presses Initialise!). I want to have a SCSI external (set to 2) capable of
backing up my 7600 HDs but also to back up my daughter's PC into which I
have fitted a SCSI PCI card. Appreciate suggestions from anyone with
experience in this matter...
Unless you have software like macdrive on the windows computer so it 
will mount macintosh disks there is no way to get the same partition 
to mount on both computers.  You can, however, partition the drive 
into two partitions, one mac-formatted, one pc-formatted.  You'll 
still need a drive for it that will work on the computer though.
Hard Disk Tools has a feature to do something like this, however I 
have not tired it out so I don't know how well it works.  Please also 
remember that when you partition a drive you only get as much space 
as you partition, so it's generally not worth it to partition small 
drives.  You actually end up with a very small reduction in availible 
space then if you had one parition because of driver and partition 
maps, etc Shouldn't really matter though unless you have a 1gb drive 
and you're concerned about 30k of space :D
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