am 07.02.2006 21:32 Uhr schrieb G-List unter [email protected]: >> However, I cannot partition the drive into one large partition. Apple's HD >> Setup will only look at the SCSI bus(es) and the ATA bus(es), it won't >> recognize the Firewire card nor the drive connected to it. > I guess you could pull the IDE drive out of the FW box and plug it > directly into your Mac's IDE... Then Apple's util will do it. > Well, that was the first thing I tried. No such luck... the HD connected to the ATA bus of the G3 MT didn't show up at all (it's a Quantum mechanism). In the meantime I hooked it to my daughter's new PowerBook (no Intel inside) and formatted it with OS X as a single OS 9 partition. After upgrading the FireWire extensions in OS 8.6 to the latest release, the HD is recognized and I can write and read from it. Will be my backup drive...
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