On 13/3/03 8:10 am, David Townend wrote:
> The La Cie Drive is being formatted using Silverlining Pro in OS9.2.2. And
> Norton (who is reporting the disc error "The partition map block count
> is incorrect") is also being used on 9.2.2. (G3).
> So what gives ? Is Norton talking rubbish ? Or should I reformat using
> Apples Disc Utility and forgo low level formatting (which is what I needed)
> in the future ?
David
I read ages ago that you should use Apple's own drivers and not those of a
third party. That's the advice I have stuck to and not experienced any
problems as a result. I also read that if you format using third party
drivers, Apple's Disk Utility won't be able to see your drive. This may have
changed with the updated DU but I have no way of testing it. If you can see
the drive with the DU, I would reformat with it.
> (Minor wing : I assume Apple doesn't let you reformat your drives (in OSX)
> for use with OS 9 as another irritation to pursuade users to "migrate" to
> THEIR preferred OS ?).
I would've thought formatting is formatting and not OS dependent. Both OS's
recognise HFS+ (the recommended structure). Are you thinking of Windows,
perhaps? FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS are commonly used but not all of them can see
the other without using third party drivers.
Both OS 9 and OS X are _their_ systems (they only license them to the users)
so I guess Apple have every right to prefer one over the other. It is a
business, after all and if they see fit to favour one...Personally, I would
let people install OS 9 on the latest machines but then I've always been
more of an artist than a businessman. <G>
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