Hi All... I've been using some USB drives (Flash and "Real" Hard Discs) and something caught my attention. In disc utility a USB drive has 2 entries... the first shows the drive with the manufacturer's name ie... Hitachi and it has a MS-DOS FAT Volume Format, the second entry seems to be like a partition that can have any format. The disc utility entry for the drive looks like this... (Missing the drive icons and comments, of course!)
18.6 GB HITACHI_DK23CA-20 Media <-Can't erase USB Portable <- Can erase When I try to erase the actual drive, the top level, it never works... reverting to MS-DOS FAT. I can format the "partition" to anything Disc utility has to offer. Is this normal? It's no big thing... just trying to understand the nature of the beast! :-) Amanda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---