On Jan 10, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Art Sable wrote:
Two questions.
1. What is the largest capacity internal IDE hard drive that can be accommodated in a Blue & White G3? (I want to install several large drives into a B&W G3 and use it as a network backup server for the Macs on my home network.)
120G is the largest to safely put in.
2. On a used hard drive that has been formatted by a non-Apple utility, is there a way to completely wipe the drive, including the invisible formatting stuff, so that the drive can then be formatted by Drive Setup? (Drive Setup doesn't recognize a drive that has non-Apple formatting.)
DANGER, DANGER, WARNING, WARNING Will Robinson!!! Drive setup will format a pc (or unix, or whatever) ide drive. It will just report it as unformatted, iirc, and then go about its business formatting the drive. This alerts me that the drive MAY have some serious problems.
Note that Drive setup does have problems with newer SCSI drives and may not see or format them at all.
HTH Len
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