On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:02 PM, tivo wrote:
Tivo, if you don't have anything important on the external driver, you
can use Disk Utility to re-initiallise the hardrive and don't forget to
include the drivers for OS 9.
You mean to re-initialize the entire hard drive just for one driver? Is it
not just possible to install the driver to OS 9 so that it can read this
external drive? I've never done the re-initialization and am a bit reticent
unless I can't find an easier, simpler way.
BTW, I have an external Firewire 120G La Cie hooked up, and it automatically
functions in OSX.
I do use OS 9 because I'm writing a lengthy document and I prefer Word from
Office 2001 to Office X for this because of abilities with Thesaurus and
Spelling that were removed with Office X's Word. I loaded it from an old OS
9 back-up CD.
Would my old back-up CDs for OS 9 have the driver? And if so, could I get it
from there and use it? Would I find it in the same place as where this CD
driver went during installation -- >Systems>extensions?
Or would I need the installer to do this? (perhaps I also have it somewhere
on the old CDs? I tended to save the installers in the past... Not that I
knew why; just paranoid...
The way I understood this was that if you wanted to be able to read a drive or partition that has OS 9 on it (from OS X), you must install the OS 9 disc drivers when you install OS X. I don't know if it can be done after OS X installation or not. Again, I can't say positively that I'm remembering this correctly. If you have your OS X installation documentation handy, it might offer more info. Does your LaCie drive have OS 9 installed on it, or OS X? Or are you simply using it for data storage?
John
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