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.
You shouldn't have to do that.
Disk drivers (in the hard disk drive sense) reside in a special partition on the hard drive itself, not somewhere in your extensions folder as would a CD-ROM drive's drivers. When you partition or format a drive in OS 9, Drive Setup automatically writes the drivers to the disk. If you do it in OS X, the drivers needed for OS 9 to recognize the drive may not be written.
The solution is to re-initialize the disk making sure the OS 9 drivers get written. But you should be able to boot into OS 9, open Drive Setup, and choose "update drivers" from the functions menu without having to re-initialize the drive.... I think.
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