On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mat Maessen" > Subject: Re: OT: Configuring a second internal hard drive (mac g4)? > > >> On 6/24/08, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> can't offer any advice on partitioning and formatting the thing. You >>> probably should go ahead and figure out where in the directory hierarchy >>> you want to mount the thing, though. >> >> The OS figures that out for you. It gets mounted as /Volumes/<volume >> name> and shows up as an available drive in the Finder. > > I think it's neat that all you have to do is plug the thing in, and viola!! > One of the things > I've never figured out is why Windows doesn't do it automatically, or at > least autolaunch the > new drive wizard thingie. I mean, why else would you put a new drive into a > computer? > > William Robb >
Windows does do the same thing, as the Mac doesn't actually mount anything until you've run Disk Utility to format and name the drive. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
