Just to say you would expect a 120GB dik to have about 117GB of space once formatted as the drivers take up space as well.
You should be able to use Silverlining to format the drive - then install Mac OS 9 on it and it should boot. Just because it is not Apple Disk Utility compatible, doesn't mean that it is not bootable.
Also if you have it you could try formatting in Mac OS X and make it OS 9 friendly as well. (On another machine that is)
Hope this helps as a starter - ask away if you want more info
kind regards
Richard Earney
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On 18 Mar 2004, at 11:58, Jorge Parra wrote:
HI all
I have just got a 120 Gig FW hard drive from LaCie to back up data.
As part of the backing up process, I need to install it on a OS9 machine
( old G3) to be able to retrieve files even from a collection of Jaz disks
to be read from a scsi jaz unit attached to the G3 ( yes I know, the digital
archeologist in action), plus another large list of CD's .
on the Desktop, it must be formatted.
So far the only thing I 've found is the initialization procedure(again,
from the Control Panel), followed by a install of some 40 Mb of data which
is already in the Disk, so I see no major reason to use this process to
regain the lost space. What can be wong here.?
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