A few questions regarding adding new hard drives to the Starmax. I have a 40 GB Maxtor to install (and thanks to all who have responded to my previous queries about hard drive issues) in my SM5275, Newer G3, and running OS8.6.
The drive is a new DiamondPlus OEM version, which means it's the bare drive, hence my previous questions re ATA cable vs IDE cable, etc. Which is considered preferable, formatting with Apple Drive Setup or FWB HD Toolkit? I've got a couple of versions of Apple DS (2.03 and1.74) and I've got FWB 3.02 which supports OS8.6. Any preferences, warnings, great results from using either of these programs for hard drive formatting? My plan is to keep the original SM 4 GB drive as the system drive, and probably the program drive for most programs, using the 40 GB drive for data storage, primarily audio files and digital camera files....all space hogs. An audio program I'd like to keep using can store data under HFS+, but the program itself needs to be on a plain old HFS drive. So, my current plan is to keep the 4 GB drive in its original format, HFS, and format the new Maxtor drive as an HFS+ disk, perhaps with partitions for audio and visuals to tidy things up. Any known issues with running two different formats on a single machine? I can't recall seeing any, and I'm not sure I know why there would be, but hey, might as well ask. Thanks in advance...project begins this weekend....so be forewarned, there may soon be new listings with HELP in the subject field! Kurt -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
