I don't recomment formatting disks with Hard Disk Toolkit. It tends to be difficult to recover data if something goes wrong (for me, at least). I've used a patched Drive Setup / Apple HD SC Setup with much better results. See <http://lowendmac.com/sable/07/mac-drive-setup-patch.html> for details and downloads. Keep in mind that for a Mac Portable, you MUST use Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.1 (which comes with System 7.0.1) or you'll have crashes on sleep <http://lowendmac.com/pb/macintosh-portable.html>.
HFS+ requires Mac OS 8.1. An update from 8.0 to 8.1 is available. A PPC machine is required to boot from HFS+ though. Also, be careful with older disk utilities, as they can damage HFS+ drives. Partitioning is quite easy once you get around to doing it. Remember that there is a 2GB volume size limit on HFS (standard) volumes though, and you can't have too many mounted volumes at once (I think the limit is like 20). So watch out. Hope this helps. From my experience, I recommend staying far away from HDT. --Dave On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doug McNutt wrote: >> At 10:12 -0700 5/3/09, Clark Martin wrote: >>> Disk First Aid won't see it unless it's already formatted. I don't know >>> what "Disk Tool's HD setup" is. >> >> HD SC Setup is Apple's tool for formatting disks. It checked for special >> codes in Apple > > branded disks before it would even try to work. The patch offered > removes that check > > and I don't think Apple minds any more. >> >> I have been using CD-ROM ToolKit from FWB Software for all of my Mac OS >> (classic) disks >> including systems down to OS 7.1. The company is out of business but > about 4 years ago I >> got an upgraded copy from a local dealer who at least implied that he > was allowed to give >> it away. There have been complaints about the toolkit but I have never > had a problem. >> It's possible that there were problems with Norton's software. > > CD-ROM ToolKit is for CD-ROMS, it was something like FWB Harddisk > Toolkit that worked with HDs. > >> >> For really older systems partitioning disks can save space. The problem is >> that the >> minimum block size gets too big when the file system can only address > 15 bits - a >> Pascal int - of blocks. HFS+ is much better but only works beginning in > something >> like OS 8.5. The FWB toolkit handles formatting easily but you have to > set up partitions >> while overall formatting is being done. > > I believe with HFS (non-plus), aka Standard the maximum number of blocks > is 65, 536, a 16 bit value, in any programming language. HFS+, Mac OS > Extended) was first supported in OS 8.1. PPC machines can boot from > HFS+. 68040 machines can access HFS+ but they cannot boot from it. > > > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
